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Air Launch and LOX Collection as Enabling Technologies for Future Launch SystemsLaunch from an aerial, subsonic carrier aircraft yields significant improvements in engine performance and reduced drag and gravity losses. Additionally, the carrier aircraft can fly to latitudes that permit ascent into any desired inclination. Vehicle performance is limited by the takeoff mass constraint of the carrier aircraft, but the inflight collection of liquid oxygen may enable this constraint to be breached.
Document ID
20020023257
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Sorensen, Kirk
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Schafer, Charles
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2001
Subject Category
Spacecraft Propulsion And Power
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Country: United States
Start Date: July 8, 2001
End Date: July 11, 2001
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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