Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration
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Beschreibung
In Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems the authors demonstrate the need to break free from the old established concepts of expendable rockets, using chemical propulsion, and to develop new breeds of launch vehicle capable of both launching payloads into orbit at dramatically reduced cost, and for sustained operations in low-Earth orbit. The next steps, they explain, to establishing a permanent "presence" in the solar system beyond Earth are the commercialisation of sustained operations on the Moon, and the development of advanced nuclear or high-energy space propulsion systems for solar system exploration out to the boundary of interstellar space. In the future, high-energy particle research facilities may one day yield a very high-energy propulsion system that will take us to the nearby stars, or even beyond. This is a timely and comprehensive book, putting spacecraft propulsion systems in perspective.
Demonstrates how the development of space propulsion systems has been held back by reliance on expendable rockets and chemical propulsion
Puts forward a step-by-step approach to the design of new space propulsion systems for future operations
Reviews the concepts for nuclear and high-energy space propulsion, essential for fast Solar System exploration
Looks ahead to possible future developments of propulsion systems for journeys to the stars
Autor*in
Paul A. Czysz
Themen in »Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems«
Electric rockets explained IAC Propulsion space Spacecraft engines development moon space