Published March 1992
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Future of space propulsion
Description
A development status-and-prospects evaluation is presented for the range of spacecraft propulsion alternatives under consideration by the USAF's Phillips Laboratory, encompassing technologies broadly characterizable as 'conventional' (solid, storable liquid, cryogenic) and 'nonconventional'. Nonconventional spacecraft propulsion system types include arcjets, magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, solar thermal propulsion, and nuclear propulsion. The prospects for high energy density materials' application to more coventional propulsion concepts are noted
Availability note (English)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 370 LEnfant Promenade, S.W., Washington, DC 20024 (United States).Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 4 p.
Conference
- Title
- American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) space programs and technologies conference.
- Dates
- 24-27 Mar 1992.
- Place
- Huntsville, AL (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24002592
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CRYOGENIC FLUIDS; DESIGN; LIQUID FUELS; PROPULSION; PROPULSION SYSTEMS; ROCKETS; SOLAR THERMAL CONVERSION; SOLID FUELS; SPACE PROPULSION REACTORS; SPACE VEHICLES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
- Descriptors DEC
- CONVERSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY SOURCES; FLUIDS; FUELS; MATERIALS; MOBILE REACTORS; NUCLEAR FUELS; POWER REACTORS; PROPULSION REACTORS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION; SPACE POWER REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- AIAA-Paper--92-1699; CONF-920373--.