Argus, a highly reusable SSTO rocket-based combined cycle launch vehicle with maglifter launch assist

8th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 1-12

  Olds, John R ^a   Bellini, Peter X ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; COSTS; EARNINGS; FLEET OPERATIONS; LAUNCH VEHICLES; NASA; ORBITS; ROCKETS;

BUSINESS SCENARIO; INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN; LOW EARTH ORBITS; OPERATIONS COST; RECURRING COSTS; REUSABLE SPACE TRANSPORTATION; ROCKET BASED COMBINED CYCLES; SECOND GENERATION;

HYPERSONIC VEHICLES;

EID: 84983185932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-1557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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