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... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 60 60 '''Page ''' - 304-308 '''Year''' - 2007 '''Keywords''' - Propulsion system, plug nozzle, engine cluster, planetary, lunar, moon, lander, main and assist engine, throttable engine ... . To fulfil the mission needs of these planetary lander studies, preferably with a common chemical propulsion subsystem concept for all these studies to use as much commonalities as possible, a trade ...

... Society for Volume 60 60 '''Page ''' - 63-71 '''Year''' - 2007 '''Keywords''' - Small spacecraft, electric propulsion, electric propulsion missions, electric thrusters, solar cells, solar arrays, silicon carbide electronics, lithium-ion batteries, space computers ... is power production, from much improved solar cells and solar arrays. This has allowed electric propulsion (EP) systems to become viable for spacecraft in this category. The paper therefore considers initially ...

... the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 62 62 '''Page ''' - 332-339 '''Year''' - 2009 '''Keywords''' - Laser propulsion, vapour, water ablation, OTV, Moon, high-power Laser Diode (LD), YAG, fibre laser, fuel cell ... need of installing an energy source is an advantage of a laser propulsion scheme. The possibility of an independent laser propulsion space vehicle that carries a laser source and a power supply ...

... Society for Volume 63 63 '''Page ''' - 82-89 '''Year''' - 2010 '''Keywords''' - Space propulsion, metric engineering, spacetime alteration, warp drives, wormholes, polarizable vacuum '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - ... and therefore the possibility that matter/ vacuum interactions might be engineered for space-flight applications is not a priori ruled out 1 . As examples, the current ...

... ROCKET PROPULSION ELEMENTS''' by Sutton, G. P. ''New York, 1948: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 294 pages, ... relations, rocket propellant performance calculations, liquid rocket propellants, liquid rocket motors, liquid propellant feed systems, flight performance, rocket testing and solid propellant rockets. The book has become a standard text in ...

... .50 and $13.00'' Volume 1, "Thermodynamics of Fluid Flow and Application to Propulsion Engines," reviews fundamentals, propulsion systems, flow through nozzles, flow through diffusers, etc. Problems and answers are given. Volume ... power plants and the turboprop engine, the turbojet engine, the ramjet engine and rocket jet propulsion. It would be difficult to find a more complete and authoritative treatment of the subjects ...

... York, 1959: Pergamon Press, Inc., 237 pages, $6.00'' Advanced Propulsion Systems contains the papers delivered at the First Advanced Propulsion Systems Symposium sponsored by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and North American Aviation, Inc. Propulsion systems, power sources, propellants, etc., are considered, with chapters on ion propulsion systems, solar heating, thrust from plasma, ozone and fluorine ...

... . 12 of the "High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion" series the book has sections on the historical development of jet propulsion, basic principles of jet propulsion, turbojet engines, turboprop engines, intermittent jets, liquid ... rocket engines, ram rockets and other hybrid type engines, use of atomic energy in jet propulsion, and prospects for the future. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science ...

... Structure of the Nucleus and Nuclear Reactions," "Reactor Physics." "The Thermodynamics of Jet and Rocket Propulsion," "The Application of Nuclear Power," "The Nuclear-Pdwered Closed-Cycle Gas Turbine," "The Design of ... ," "Marine Developments in the Nuclear Age," "Nuclear Marine Propulsion," "Some Observations on the Application of Nuclear Power to Aircraft," "Progress in Nuclear Propulsion," "The Limitations of Chemical Rockets and the Possibility of ...

... power at one cent per kilowatt-hour. Concepts have been suggested for fusion propulsion that are very attractive for propulsion but are not consistent with the ground electric power cost goals. Also ... concepts being pursued for low cost ground power are not the best for propulsion. So, most of the fusion propulsion work is theoretical for now, since there is no mission requirement yet ...

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