The US military must be prepared to take advantage of reusable launch vehicles (RLVs) should the NASA-industry effort to develop an RLV technology demonstrator prove successful. The focus of this research is an explanation of how the US military could use RLVs, by describing and analyzing two alternative concepts of operations.
Concepts of Operations for a Reusable Launch Space Vehicle
1996
94 pages
Report
No indication
English
Unmanned Spacecraft , Manned Spacecraft , Space transportation , Military planning , Launch vehicles , Military requirements , United states , Policies , Risk , Economics , Earth orbits , Space systems , Efficiency , Theses , Costs , Propulsion systems , Feasibility studies , Reconnaissance , Rlv(Reusable launch vehicle)
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