The HERMES space plane is a manned, reusable vehicle, to be launched on the new ARIANE 5 launcher into low earth circular and polar orbits. After separation from ARIANE 5, HERMES is manoeuvered to its required operational orbit. Two propulsion concepts for orbit insertion are under discussion: an integrated reusable system and a separated, expendable system. The integrated system was used as a baseline in this study. The impact on the study results, when using an expendable system, was analysed. The design steps of the baseline flow scheme of the propulsion system are discussed. Results of several trade-offs which led to the selection of the baseline propulsion system flow scheme are presented. The impact of the recent reconfiguration of HERMES on the flow scheme is shown.
Hermes propulsion system design
Auslegung des Hermes-Antriebssystems
AIAA-Papers ; Jul ; 1-7
1987
7 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 3 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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