This presentation describes a number of advanced space propulsion technologies with the potential for meeting the need for dramatic reductions in the cost of access to space, and the need for new propulsion capabilities to enable bold new space exploration (and, ultimately, space exploitation) missions of the 21st century.
Advanced Space Propulsion
1996
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
Rocket Engines & Motors , Rocket Propellants , Manned Spacecraft , Extraterrestrial Exploration , Cost effectiveness , Cost reduction , Electric propulsion , Ion engines , Jet propulsion , Launch costs , Low cost , Operating costs , Power beaming , Propellants , Propulsion system performance , Specific impulse , Propulsion system configurations , Aerospace engineering , Chemical propulsion , Manned mars missions , Microwave transmission , Payloads , Robotics , Roving vehicles , Space commercialization , Space exploration , Space industrialization , Space missions , Space transportation , Technology utilization , Reprints
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