NASA's Next Generation Launch Technology Program has been on the cutting edge of technology, improving the safety, affordability, and reliability of future space-launch-transportation systems. The array of projects focused on propulsion, airframe, and other vehicle systems. Achievements range from building miniature fuel/oxygen sensors to hot-firings of major rocket-engine systems as well as extreme thermo-mechanical testing of large-scale structures. Results to date have significantly advanced technology readiness for future space-launch systems using either airbreathing or rocket propulsion.
Technology Innovations from NASA's Next Generation Launch Technology Program
2004
11 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Research Program Administration & Technology Transfer , Reusable launch vehicles , Spacecraft propulsion , Research and development , Technology assessment , Prototypes , Preburners , Engine tests , Liquid propellant rocket engines , Rocket-based combined-cycle engines , Auxiliary propulsion , Hydrogen peroxide , Airframes