The US government is funding three projects to develop new, less costly booster rockets that could propel a space vehicle of any size into orbit. The first of these is the R-68 liquid oxygen/hydrogen-fueled rocket engine, which is expected to power the first stage of the future Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). The second project is NASA's oxygen/kerosene-fueled Fastrac engine, which is designed to propel the air-launched X-34 spaceplane into space and back to a wing-borne landing. The third project is Rocketdyne's XRS-2200 linear aerospike engine, which is designed to send the autonomously controlled NASA X-33 lifting body into orbit.


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    Title :

    Bringing launch costs down to earth


    Contributors:
    Ashley, S. (author)

    Published in:

    Mechanical Engineering ; 120 , 10 ; 62-68


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    7 Seiten



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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