Single-stage-to-orbit - Meeting the challenge

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 38, Issue 4-8, 1996, Pages 323-331

  Freeman, Delma C ^a   Talay, Theodore A ^a   Austin, Robert Eugene ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; LAUNCHING; ORBITS; REUSABLE ROCKETS; SPACECRAFT;

REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE STAGE TO ORBIT CONCEPT;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0030085441     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0094-5765(96)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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