Ebook: Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration
- Tags: Space Exploration and Astronautics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Series: Springer Praxis Books
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Language: English
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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.
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Overview....Pages 11-34
Our progress appears to be impeded....Pages 35-68
Commercial near Earth space launcher: a perspective....Pages 69-103
Commercial near Earth launcher: propulsion....Pages 105-201
Earth orbit on-orbit operations in near Earth orbit, a necessary second step....Pages 203-248
Earth-Moon system: establishing a Solar System presence....Pages 249-275
Exploration of our Solar System....Pages 277-357
Stellar and quasi-stellar propulsion....Pages 359-412
View to the future and exploration of our Galaxy....Pages 413-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-471
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Overview....Pages 11-34
Our progress appears to be impeded....Pages 35-68
Commercial near Earth space launcher: a perspective....Pages 69-103
Commercial near Earth launcher: propulsion....Pages 105-201
Earth orbit on-orbit operations in near Earth orbit, a necessary second step....Pages 203-248
Earth-Moon system: establishing a Solar System presence....Pages 249-275
Exploration of our Solar System....Pages 277-357
Stellar and quasi-stellar propulsion....Pages 359-412
View to the future and exploration of our Galaxy....Pages 413-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-471
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