Military access to space requires significant payload volume and acceptable costs. It has not been demonstrated that current launch systems can provide either. This report describes two advanced launch concepts that could potentially provide an order of magnitude reduction in the total costs of launching modest payloads to space and give the margin over the economics of current concepts required to meet both current and expanded requirements for military and civilian launch schedules and provide a margin for the expansion of each. 29 refs., 4 figs. (ERA citation 14:030230)
Advanced Mass Launchers for Low Earth Orbit
1989
43 pages
Report
No indication
English
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