The Aquila Launch Vehicle - A hybrid propulsion space booster
Abstract
The Aquila Launch Vehicle is the first low-cost hybrid rocket propulsion space booster capable of placing 1450-kg payloads into LEO with high availability and reliability, as well as unprecedented levels of production, ground, and flight operations safety. Since hybrid rockets cannot explode, they may be readily manufactured in light-industrial production facilities. Polar-orbit operations with commercial and government-project payloads are scheduled to begin from Vandenberg AFB in 1995.
- Publication:
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Montreal International Astronautical Federation Congress
- Pub Date:
- October 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991mont.iafcT....F
- Keywords:
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- Commercial Spacecraft;
- Hybrid Propulsion;
- Launch Vehicle Configurations;
- Launch Vehicles;
- Product Development;
- Propulsion System Configurations;
- Space Transportation;
- Hybrid Propellant Rocket Engines;
- Hybrid Propellants;
- Liquid Oxidizers;
- Low Cost;
- Polybutadiene;
- Rocket Engine Control;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles