Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration /

• Main Authors: Czysz, Paul A. (Author), Bruno, Claudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books, Astronautical Engineering
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astrophysics.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

In this second edition of Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems, the authors demonstrate the need to break free from the old established concepts of expendable rockets, using chemical propulsion, and to develop new breeds of launch vehicle capable of both launching payloads into orbit at a dramatical...

Table of Contents:

• Overview
• Our progress appears to be impeded
• Commercial near-Earth space launcher: a perspective
• Commercial near-Earth launcher: propulsion
• Earth orbit on-orbit operations in near-Earth orbit, a necessary second step
• Earth-Moon system: establishing a Solar System presence
• Exploration of our Solar System
• Stellar and interstellar precursor missions
• View to the future and exploration of our Galaxy.