Advanced propulsion systems and technologies, today to 2020 /

Commissioned by the European Space Agency, this book details specific propulsion technologies as envisioned by 2020. Each technology has been considered in terms of concept, associated key technologies, development status and proposed roadmaps. The reader is led through all the steps that propulsion...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, European Space Agency
Otros Autores: Bruno, Claudio, Accettura, Antonio G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reston, Va. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2008.
Colección:Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 223.
Temas:
Space vehicles > Propulsion systems.
Propulsion systems.
Véhicules spatiaux > Propulsion.
Systèmes de propulsion.
Propulsion systems
Space vehicles > Propulsion systems
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Advanced solid rocket motors
  • Advanced cryogenic engines
  • Advanced LOX-HC engines for boosters and upper stages
  • LOX-hydrocarbon engines in Russia
  • Green propellants
  • Green propellants in Russia
  • Miniaturized propulsion
  • Solar thermal propulsion for upper stages
  • Electric-propulsion systems
  • Superconductivity
  • The case for nuclear propulsion : the Rubbia's engine
  • VASIMR prefeasibility analysis
  • Laser propulsion systems
  • Mass accelerators : Maglev and Railguns
  • Solar sails : propellantless propulsion for near- and medium-term deep-space missions
  • In situ resource utilization.

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