Spaceplanes from airport to spaceport /
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Springer,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Rocketplanes at the airport
- Why spaceplanes?
- Rocket science: wings added
- Missiles and modules
- Crawling into suborbit: the baby spaceplace
- Going ballistic
- Piggyback to orbit
- Advanced propulsion
- Single stage to orbit: the advanced spaceplace
- Destination moon: the lunar spaceplane
- Strategies for success
- Spaceplanes at the spaceport.