Program carried out at Aerojet-General Corp to demonstrate feasibility of servicing and launching liquid propellant rockets floating in sea, without use of special launching platform; vehicle is launched from vertical floating position; thrust chamber being started and fired some distance under surface during initial phase of flight; feasibility was demonstrated by successful rocket ignitions under water in flooded test bay.
Sea launch of rocket vehicles
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1961 Launching
1961
12 pages
Conference paper
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
SAE Technical Papers | 1961
|Vertical floating launch of rocket vehicles
Engineering Index Backfile | 1961
|Assessing Rocket Plume Damage to Launch Vehicles
AIAA | 2005
|Prospects for advanced rocket-powered launch vehicles
NTRS | 1986
|Assessing Rocket Plume Damage to Launch Vehicles
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005
|