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.
Reusable launch vehicles
Space/Aeronautics
Space/Aeronautics ; 42 , n 3
1964
9 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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