Access to GEO using the American Rocket ILV-1
Abstract
It will be shown that, by use of an unconventional technique, a commercial launch vehicle ILV-1, a vehicle designed for payload delivery to low earth orbit, could be used to deliver large (above 1900 lbs.) payloads to geostationary orbit.
- Publication:
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AIAA, ASME, SAE, and ASEE, 25th Joint Propulsion Conference
- Pub Date:
- July 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989jpmc.confS....P
- Keywords:
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- Commercial Spacecraft;
- Geosynchronous Orbits;
- Orbital Maneuvers;
- Rocket Vehicles;
- Expendable Stages (Spacecraft);
- Hybrid Rocket Engines;
- Low Cost;
- Mission Planning;
- Payloads;
- Space Commercialization;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles