Advanced propulsion systems and technologies, today to 2020
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reston, Va. :
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
c2008.
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| Series: | Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ;
v. 223. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.