Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration /

• Main Authors: Czysz, Paul A. (Author), Bruno, Claudio. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books, Astronautical Engineering
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astrophysics.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88814-7

In this second edition of 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 a dramatical...

Table of Contents:

• Commercial Proximate Earth Launcher
• On-orbit Operations in Proximate Earth Orbit
• Earth-Moon System Advantages
• The Need for Nuclear or High Energy Space Propulsion
• The Need for Very High Energy Space Propulsion
• The Need for Light Speed Plus Propulsion.