This paper presents viewgraphs of the RS-68 and Linear Aerospike engines. The topics include: 1) The mission; 2) Design and Development Strategies; 3) Cost Driven Design Trades; 4) Moderate Pressure Requirements Enable Reduced Complexity; 5) Experience Based Design; 6) Development Costs Dominated by Cost of Eliminating Failure Modes; and 7) Reducing Development Costs. This paper also includes the design of the RS-68 Engine and the engine performance.


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    Title :

    Liquid Rocket Propulsion: RS-68 and Linear Aerospike


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Liquid Rocket Propulsion ; 1999 ; Amsterdam, Netherlands


    Publication date :

    1999-10-12


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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