STS 2000 - An outline
Abstract
Several configurations for STO vehicles designed for the French STS 2000 study are discussed. Special attention is given to the design of two-stages-to-orbit and 'almost single-stage-to-orbit' air-breathing launchers and to the reusable cryogenic tanks and the two-dimensional air intakes subsystems. The system studies clearly showed the high sensitivity of the payload mass to the structural mass, the engine performance, and the intake efficiency.
- Publication:
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Dresden International Astronautical Federation Congress
- Pub Date:
- October 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990dres.iafcR....F
- Keywords:
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- French Space Program;
- Reusable Launch Vehicles;
- Space Transportation System;
- Technological Forecasting;
- Launch Vehicle Configurations;
- Propulsion System Configurations;
- Propulsion System Performance;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles