Three concepts, general-utility spacecraft family, multiple-orbit/ payload launch, and orbital shuttle, evolved as results of system studies carried out by U S Air Force's Aerospace Research Support Program (ARSP); paper describes orbital shuttle concept and its potential effect on space mission planning; spacecraft is "mission-peculiar", orbital-launched, modular vehicle, capable of carrying one or several spacecraft thus allowing single launch vehicle to accomplish missions of several spacecraft with significantly different orbit requirements.
Orbital shuttle
Astronautics Aeronautics
Astronautics and Aeronautics ; 6 , n 5
1968
9 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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