Design studies completed by Laboratoire de Recherches Balistique et Aerodynamiques (LRBA) at Vernon, Eure, including family of launch vehicles which could take European space effort far beyond capability of present ELDO launch vehicles; all are based on existing technology in French liquid and solid-propellant rocket engines; launchers depend on step-by-step evolution from Diamant B rocket's Amethyste first stage, which employs single gimbal-mounted Valois engine of 77,000-lb lift-off thrust; propellants are unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetraoxide; Carmen has two engines in first stage, Vulcain four, Bacchus eight and Supervulcain B eight engines of improved thrust; other details.
French booster plans
Flight
Flight International ; 93 , n 3088
1968
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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