Compression structures for earth launch

34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Landis, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROPULSION; SEA LEVEL;

ENGINE PERFORMANCE; INITIAL POTENTIAL; PERFORMANCE GAIN; REDUCED GRAVITY;

ORBITS;

EID: 84876609960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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