Next generation earth-to-orbit space transportation systems: Unmanned vehicles and liquid/hybrid boosters [PDF]
The United States civil space effort when viewed from a launch vehicle perspective tends to categorize into pre-Shuttle and Shuttle eras. The pre-Shuttle era consisted of expendable launch vehicles where a broad set of capabilities were matured in a ...
Hueter, Uwe
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Design, Manufacture and Experimental Study of a Hydrogen Peroxide-HTPB Hybrid Rocket Motor [PDF]
فصلنامه علوم و فناوری فضایی, 2013 The application of the hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizer of a HTPB-based prototype hybrid motor is investigated in this paper. First of all, by studying the thermochemical characteristics of the propellant,operation range of different compositions is ...
Hojat Ghassemi +4 more
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C/C-SiC Composites for Nozzle of Solid Propellant Ramjet
Journal of Aeronautical Materials, 2017 Carbon fiber reinforced carbon and silicon carbide matrix composites for nozzle inner of solid propellant ramjet were prepared by using the hybrid process of "chemical vapor infiltration + precursor impregnation pyrolysis (CVI+PIP)".
WANG Lingling +5 more
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A simple data logger for student-designed rocket experiments. [PDF]
, 2007 The final-year project for Mechanical & Space Engineering students at UQ often involves the design and flight testing of an experiment. This report describes the design and use of a simple data logger that should be suitable for collecting data from the ...
P. A. Jacobs
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Low Temperature Hybrid Mars Ascent Vehicle Concept Development and Planning at MSFC [PDF]
Return of samples from Mars has been a goal of NASA's for decades. The current Mars Sample Return mission concepts have a multiple launch rocket from the earth, where one mission delivers a caching rover to collect and package the Martian soil samples ...
Chaffin, Jessica +5 more
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Hybrid Buses: Costs and Benefits [PDF]
, 2007 Key Facts:In 2005, more than 60 percent of the 9.7 billion transit passenger trips in the United States were provided by buses, approximately 84 percent of which are powered by diesel combustion engines.Diesel exhaust contains ozone precursors, benzene ...
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Design issues for lunar in situ aluminum/oxygen propellant rocket engines [PDF]
Design issues for lunar ascent and lunar descent rocket engines fueled by aluminum/oxygen propellant produced in situ at the lunar surface were evaluated.
Meyer, Michael L.
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A study of the application of microwave techniques to the measurement of solid propellant burning rates Progress report, 1 Sep. 1966 - 31 Aug. 1967 [PDF]
Microwave techniques for measurement of solid rocket propellant burning ...
Obrien, W. F., Jr., Wood, H. L.
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Preliminary analysis of space mission applications for electromagnetic launchers [PDF]
The technical and economic feasibility of using electromagnetically launched EML payloads propelled from the Earth's surface to LEO, GEO, lunar orbit, or to interplanetary space was assessed.
Conlon, R. J. +3 more
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