Propellant requirements, tankage configurations, preferred propellant management techniques, propulsion systems weights, and technology deficiencies for low thrust expendable propulsion systems are examined. A computer program was utilized which provided a complete propellant inventory (including boil-off for cryogenic cases), pressurant and propellant tank dimensions for a given ullage, pressurant requirements, insulation requirements, and miscellaneous masses. The output also includes the masses of all tanks; the mass of the insulation, engines and other components; total wet system and burnout mass; system mass fraction; total impulse and burn time.
Low-thrust chemical orbit to orbit propulsion system propellant management study
1980-07-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Low-thrust chemical orbit transfer propulsion
AIAA | 1979
|Low-thrust chemical orbit transfer propulsion
NTRS | 1979
|Low-Thrust Chemical Orbit Transfer Propulsion
NTIS | 1979
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