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Author Czysz, Paul A.

Title Future spacecraft propulsion systems : enabling technologies for space exploration / Paul A. Czysz, Claudio Bruno
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Pub., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 464 pages)
Series Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering
Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering.
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 quasi-stellar propulsion -- View to the future and exploration of our Galaxy
Summary In 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 dramatically reduced cost, and for sustained operations in low-Earth orbit. The next steps, they explain, to establishing a permanent "presence" in the solar system beyond Earth are the commercialisation of sustained operations on the Moon, and the development of advanced nuclear or high-energy space propulsion systems for solar system exploration out to the boundary of interstellar space. In the future, high-energy particle research facilities may one day yield a very high-energy propulsion system that will take us to the nearby stars, or even beyond. This is a timely and comprehensive book, putting spacecraft propulsion systems in perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems.
Ingénierie.
Space vehicles -- Propulsion systems
Form Electronic book
Author Bruno, Claudio
ISBN 9783540376415
3540376410
3540231617
9783540231615