Design options for advanced manned launch systems

Autor:	Theodore A. Talay, Delma C. Freeman, Douglas O. Stanley, Alan W. Wilhite, Roger A. Lepsch
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Engineering business.product_category Spacecraft propulsion business.industry Cost effectiveness Space Station Freedom Aerospace Engineering Space Shuttle Propulsion Spacecraft design Systems analysis Rocket Space and Planetary Science Aerospace engineering business
Zdroj:	Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 32:241-249
ISSN:	1533-6794 0022-4650
DOI:	10.2514/3.26602
Popis:	Various concepts for advanced manned launch systems (AMLS) are examined for delivery missions to Space Station and polar orbit. Included are single- and two-stage winged systems with rocket and/or airbreathing propulsion systems. For near-term technologies, two-stage, reusable rocket systems are favored over single-stage rocket or two-stage airbreathing/rocket systems. Advanced technologies enable viable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) concepts. Although two-stage rocket systems continue to be lighter in dry weight than SSTOs, advantages in simpler operations may make SSTOs more cost effective over the life cycle. Generally, rocket systems maintain a dry weight advantage over airbreathing systems at the advanced technology levels, but to a lesser degree than when near-term technologies are used. More detailed understanding of vehicle systems and associated ground and flight operations requirements and procedures is essential in determining quantitative discrimination between these latter concepts.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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