A study was conducted by an ad hoc group within the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory during the calendar year of 1970 in an attempt to predict the major propulsion developments that may occur in the next 30 to 40 years. The report evaluates the future of conventional chemical rocketry based on thermodynamic principles and revolutionary conceptual approaches to system applications. Advanced concepts falling under the general headings of Thermal, Field and Photon Propulsion are evaluated to a degree necessary to define their potential. The report does not define a long list of very near-term technology program subjects, but is designed to encourage and motivate talented and interested scientists and engineers to once again strive for advanced propulsion concepts. (Author)
Advanced Propulsion Concepts - Project Outgrowth
1972
280 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Combustion, Engines, & Propellants , Space propulsion , Advanced planning , Rocket propellants , Electric propulsion , Nuclear propulsion , Lasers , Specific impulse , Particle accelerators , Electromagnetic drives , Thermal propulsion , Chemical propulsion , Photon propulsion , Field propulsion , Detonation propulsion
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