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Air Launch to Orbit: North American X-15, Pegasus, Spaceplane, Rockwell X-30, Nots-Ev-1 Pilot, Nots-Ev-2 Caleb, Air Launch to Orbit

Air Launch to Orbit: North American X-15, Pegasus, Spaceplane, Rockwell X-30, Nots-Ev-1 Pilot, Nots-Ev-2 Caleb, Air Launch to Orbit


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: North American X-15, Pegasus, Spaceplane, Rockwell X-30, Nots-Ev-1 Pilot, Nots-Ev-2 Caleb, Air Launch to Orbit, Project Isinglass, Scaled Composites Spaceshipthree, Black Horse. Excerpt: Air launch to orbit is the method of launching booster rockets at altitude from a horizontal-takeoff turbojet aircraft, either subsonic or supersonic . This method, when employed for orbital payload insertion, presents significant advantages over conventional vertical rocket launches, particularly because of the reduced mass, thrust and cost of the rocket booster . The main advantage realized by the Pegasus air launch system, currently the only orbital air launch provider, is flexibility. Air launch to orbit offers the potential for aircraft-like operations such as launch on demand, and is also less subject to launch-constraining weather . This allows the aircraft to fly around weather conditions as well as fly to more optimal launch points. Other advantages include reduced national range scheduling constraints, minimum launch site requirements, and reduced range, safety concerns, and equatorial launch from the U.S. One advantage of air launching is the considerable amount of propellant conserved. This is because the carrier aircraft is able lift the rocket to altitude much more efficiently with use of turbojet engines, which do not require onboard storage of an oxidizer . This allows the launch system to conserve a significant amount of mass that would otherwise be reserved for fuel, reducing overall size. A larger fraction of the rocket mass can then include payload, thus reducing payload launch costs. Launching at altitude also presents significant performance benefits to the rocket. The high horizontal speed provided by the aircraft gives the rocket a large initial velocity and reduces the ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781155541426
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: North American X-15, Pegasus, Spaceplane, Rockwell X-30, Nots-Ev-1 Pilot, Nots-Ev-2 Caleb, Air Launch to Orbit
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155541421
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 95 gr


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