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Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration /

In Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems the authors demonstrate the need to break free from the old established concepts of expendable rockets, using chemical propulsion, and to develop new breeds of launch vehicle capable of both launching payloads into orbit at dramatically reduced cost, and for s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Czysz, Paul A. (Autor), Bruno, Claudio (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Astronautical Engineering,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview
  • Our progress appears to be impeded
  • Commercial near Earth space launcher: a perspective
  • Commercial near Earth launcher: propulsion
  • Earth orbit on-orbit operations in near Earth orbit, a necessary second step
  • Earth-Moon system: establishing a Solar System presence
  • Exploration of our Solar System
  • Stellar and quasi-stellar propulsion
  • View to the future and exploration of our Galaxy.