Critical technologies in composite wing and intertank primary structures supports RLV success

37th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structure, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 947-956

  Suh, Daniel E ^a   Biagiotti, Vincent A ^a   Prior, Donald J ^a   Yahiro, James S ^a  

^a Northrop Grumman Advanced Technology and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CHARACTERIZATION; COMMERCE; GRAPHITE; NASA; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; VEHICLES; WINGS; COMPONENTS; CONSTRUCTION; LAUNCHING; SPACECRAFT LANDING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE; GRAPHITE COMPOSITES; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PRIMARY STRUCTURES; SINGLE STAGE TO ORBITS;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

BUILDING BLOCK TESTING; COMPOSITE GRAPHITE BISMALEIMIDE; GRAPHITE COMPOSITE INTERTANK; GRAPHITE COMPOSITE WING; REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES; SINGLE STAGE TO ORBIT SPACE VEHICLES;

EID: 0029699230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-1425     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Office of Space Systems Development, NASA Headquarters, Access To Space Summary Report, January 1994
2. OMB, OSTP, and NASA Staff, Decision Criteria for the RLV Technology Program Phases II and III, 1995.
3. Benton, Mark G., Rockwell's Reusable Launch Vehicle Concept-Design for Low Risk and High Operability, AIAA 95-3857, Rockwell SSD, Downey, California.
4. Greenberg, H. Stanley, RLV Structural Arrangement Trade Study Directs NRA Technology Development, AIAA 96-1422, Rockwell SSD, Downey, California.