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Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
An understandable perspective on the types of space propulsion systems necessary to enable low-cost space flights to Earth orbit and to the Moon and the future developments necessary for exploration of the solar system and beyond to the stars.
Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration
The updated and expanded third edition of this book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems. It discusses how to match near-term and far-term aerospace vehicles to missions and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, directly contributing to the next-generation space infrastructure, from space tourism to space exploration. This holistic treatment defines a mission portfolio addressing near-term to long-term space transportation needs covering sub-orbital, orbital and escape flight profiles. In this context, a vehicle configuration classification is introduced covering alternatives starting from the dawn of space access. A best-practice parametric sizing approach is introduced to correctly design the flight vehicle for the mission. This technique balances required mission with the available vehicle solution space and is an essential capability sought after by technology forecasters and strategic planners alike.
Airbreathing Hypersonic Propulsion
This book details science of hypersonics especially focusing on propulsion aspects such as supersonic combustion ramjets and their applications, and also includes lift and drag in hypersonic flight and their mathematical and physical explanation. It provides charts and data from hypersonic testing and measurements from actual vehicles and engines built in the past. Criteria to dimension hypersonic powered and unpowered vehicles (gliders) based on fundamental fluid dynamics and backed by flight testing; criteria to preliminary sizing vehicles and preliminary dimensioning of supersonic combustors are introduced. The book will serve better theoretical understanding of drag, lift and how to apply them to the design of hypersonic vehicles, as well as data to size vehicles and supersonic combustion ramjet (SCRJ) systems. This book will be a useful reference for researchers and designers in hypersonic vehicles but also second or third-year graduate students.
The High-Temperature Hypersonic Gasdynamics Facility Estimated Mach Number 6 Through 14 Performance
The High Temperature Gas Dynamics Facility was developed as a result of the Aeronautical Systems Division's effort to extend the state-of the-art in hypersonic aerodynamic simulation. The facility is a hypersonic wind tunnel supplied with high pressure air, heated from a zirconia dioxide pebble heater. The maximum stagnation pressure and temperature is 40 atres and 4700 R, respectively. This facility is one of four of its kind in this hemisphere and the only Air Force facility of its type. This report discusses the modification of the facility to a two foot diameter test section with a Mach number range of 6 through 14 and its expected performance. This facility is scheduled to be operational in the Fall of 1963.
The Point of Gravity
MI6-SIS (Military Intelligence Section 6, Secret Intelligence Service) agent and Special Boat Service (SBS) Naval Reserve Commander James Bond encounters the ghosts of his WW2 father's Secret Weapons Past and must Race to South America to Find out the Truth about Nazi Anti-Gravity Craft (AGC) before an Evil Mastermind ruins the World with a Free Energy, Extinction Level Event (ELE). Buckle your seat belts!
Scramjet Propulsion
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High-Speed Dreams
In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors, and environmentalists. He documents post-World War II efforts at the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and the Defense Department to generate supersonic flight technologies, the attempts to commercialize these technologies by Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, environmental campaigns against SST technology in the 1970s, and subsequent attempts to revitalize supersonic technology at the end of the century. High-Speed Dreams is a sophisticated study of politics, economics, nationalism, and the global pursuit of progress. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology.
Contact
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. In December of 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future—and our own.
