Survey of design concepts which include winged and wingless, single-and multi-stage vehicles that can be recovered and reused; chutes, parawings, and retrorockets are other approaches to problem; conceptual design studies for reusable systems by various companies include Aerojet's 2-stage, 40-million-lb Sea Dragon, launched and recovered at sea, Air Force's Aerospaceplane, which lands and takes off like any other airplane, NASA's Reusable Orbit Carrier, Rombus/Ithacus(Douglas), and Nexus(General Dynamic), etc; development and operating costs.


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    Title :

    Reusable launch vehicles


    Additional title:

    Space/Aeronautics


    Contributors:
    Osmun, W.G. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    9 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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