Lightweight composite launcher pod
Abstract
This patent application discloses a lightweight composite launcher pod which includes a multiplicity of elongated launcher tubes that are accurately aligned in a composite material with the composite material having four outer sides with alignment surfaces on three of the sides and bearing and alignment surfaces on the other side, and the lightweight composite launcher pod being capable of serving as the shipping and storage container for rockets before launching of the rockets as well as for launching the rockets therefrom when mounted in a launcher structure.
- Publication:
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Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center Proc. of the Ion Implantation for Army Needs Workshop
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984army.reptQ....H
- Keywords:
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- Composite Structures;
- Glass Fibers;
- Pipes (Tubes);
- Rocket Launchers;
- Alignment;
- Composite Materials;
- Foams;
- Forming Techniques;
- Materials Handling;
- Mechanical Properties;
- Patent Applications;
- Reinforcement (Structures);
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles