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... Project Gemini . In July 1961 the Space Systems Division sent in their recommendation to use a version of the planned Phoenix booster called Space Launch System A388. This version of Phoenix would have ... Station would not currently be endangered with redundancy due to the lack of an adequate escape system. The enormous amounts of money used to deploy the B-2 (the stealth bomber shaped ...

Space customers would probably use escape systems similar to the ones the crews currently use—having an escape vehicle readily available to use and/or having a safe haven to reside in ...

... '''Keywords''' - Launch systems, heavy lift launcher, reusable launch vehicle '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2003.56.369 '''Number of Pages''' - 9 Abstract A Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) should be sized to minimise the specific launch costs and ... overall acquisition cost. Using a Heavy Lift Vehicle (HLV) with high specific launch costs but able to launch the system in one piece would lead to lower overall acquisition costs. The paper explores ...

... Society for Volume 60 60 '''Page ''' - 289-293 '''Year''' - 2007 '''Keywords''' - Falcon 1, launch vehicle, low cost launch '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2007.60.289 '''Number of Pages''' - 5 Abstract Falcon 1 was ... engine shut down. The vehicle landed 150 m downrange from the launch pad. Three days prior to the launch, a system test was conducted which included a static firing of the first stage ...

... , orbital mechanics, communications, beamed power, control systems '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.108 '''Number of Pages''' - 4 Abstract The time needed for solar sails to escape Earth orbit can be greatly reduced ... momentum transfers are possible, leading to further reductions in sail escape time. We numerically solve for solar sail trajectories and estimate escape times under a variety of conditions. In general, beamer resonance ...

If you could launch a spacecraft from Jupiter, the speed necessary to escape local gravity (escape velocity) would have to be over five times faster than the speed necessary to escape Earth's gravity ...

Escape velocity is the minimum velocity required to depart the gravitational field of an astronomical body. Imagine a rocket is launched straight up from Earth. As it goes up the booster eventually ... down but it will never actually stop and fall back to Earth. That velocity is escape velocity and for Earth it is about 25,000 miles per hour or about 36 ...

... benefit will be obtained by employing an electric propulsion (EP) system providing a high specific impulse, which will enable the mass ... This advantage is further enhanced if EP is also utilised to escape from the Earth's gravitational field. Other possible cost-reduction ... delivered to Europa within 4 years using a Delta-class launch vehicle. '''To BUY this paper click http://www.jbis.org. ...

The amount of propellants required to reach escape velocity depends on the type of rocket, the weight of the rocket structure, whether there ... , the propellants may make up 80 percent to 90 percent of the total mass at launch. ---- Answer provided by Jon H. Brown Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from ...

Image:SHELABEscapePack.jpg 300px Escape Pack designed by Hamilton Standard for one-man use on the moon. Designed as part of the SHELAB lunar habitat study in 1964. Part of the SHELAB lunar rover. Category:Launch Vehicle

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