Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration, Third Edition
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Название: Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration, Third Edition
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Автор: Paul A. Czysz, Claudio Bruno, Bernd Chudoba
Год выпуска: 2017
Формат: PDF
Размер: 17.5 MB
ISBN: 442879992444
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration, Third Edition БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: The updated and expanded third edition of this book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems. It discusses how to match near-term and far-term aerospace vehicles to missions and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, directly contributing to the next-generation space infrastructure, from space tourism to space exploration.This holistic treatment defines a mission portfolio addressing near-term to long-term space transportation needs covering sub-orbital, orbital and escape flight profiles. In this context, a vehicle configuration classification is introduced covering alternatives starting from the dawn of space access. A best-practice parametric sizing approach is introduced to correctly design the flight vehicle for the mission. This technique balances required mission with the available vehicle solution space and is an essential capability sought after by technology forecasters and strategic planners alike.
The prime motivation for this book is the fact that humankind has been dreaming of traveling to space for a long time. In the early 1960s, there was a dedicated push to develop vehicle configurations that would permit us to travel to space and back through the atmosphere as readily and conveniently as flying on an airliner. That idea was unavoidably coupled with propulsion concepts that relied on capturing the oxygen within our atmosphere, instead of carrying it onboard from the ground up as expendable satellite launchers still do now. Given the slow technology progress since 1957, space access and space flight still suffer from limited performance due to high cost, mass consumption, and energy requirements, with consequent limited acceleration and relatively slow speed. During the 1960s, the concept of space travel extended beyond our planet, to our Solar System and the galaxy beyond, using power sources other than chemical, such as fission and fusion.