Engineering and economic scaling factors for gun launch to space (GLTS) systems are compared to conventional rocket launch systems. It is argued that GLTS might reduce the cost of small satellite development and launch in the mid to far term, thereby inducing a shift away from large centralized geosynchronous communications satellites to small proliferated low earth orbit systems.


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    Title :

    Implications of Gun Launch to Space for Nanosatellite Architectures


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    Publication date :

    1995-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English





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