Next launch vehicle after Saturn C-5 should be capable of sizable increase in payload, reduction in direct operating costs, or both; survey of vehicles which possess this inherent potential; chemical and nuclear propelled vehicles are discussed for 1 or 2-stage-to-orbit applications, and winged fly-back boosters; paper shows that high chamber pressure LO2/LH2 engines of altitude compensating design present dramatic improvement over conventional engines; mixture ratio of 7 to 1 is economically superior to current ratio of 5 to 1. (see also Am Astronautical Soc -- Advances in Astronautical Sciences v 13 1963 p 20-44)
Advanced launch vehicle concepts
ASME -- Paper
ASME Meeting AHGT-89 ; 1963 Boosters
1963
13 pages
Conference paper
English
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