Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Space Transportation
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Space transportation status of the X33 reusable launch vehicle program : report to congressional requesters
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428974741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Space Transportation: Status of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The purpose of the $ 1.3 billion X-33 Program, cosponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Lockheed Martin Corporation, is to develop and demonstrate advanced technologies and techniques needed for future reusable launch vehicles (RLV), including lightweight internal fuel tanks, advanced rocket engines, a durable heat shield, and rapid-turnaround, low-cost operations. The X-33 vehicle will be a half-scale model of Lockheed Martin's planned single-stage-to- orbit (SSTO) Venture Star RLV, an operational vehicle that will be based on and developed after the X-33. Lockheed Martin and NASA will base the decision to proceed with developing the Venture Star, in part, on the results of the X-33 Program. NASA would potentially be one of Lockheed Martin's primary customers for the cargo-only flights and, at this time, is the only anticipated customer for passenger flights. The passenger flights would carry crewmembers to and from the International Space Station.
Reusable Launch Vehicle
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175860
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The key to opening the use of space to private enterprise and to broader public uses lies in reducing the cost of the transportation to space. More routine, affordable access to space will entail aircraft-like quick turnaround and reliable operations. Currently, the space Shuttle is the only reusable launch vehicle, and even parts of it are expendable while other parts require frequent and extensive refurbishment. NASA's highest priority new activity, the Reusable Launch Vehicle program, is directed toward developing technologies to enable a new generation of space launchers, perhaps but not necessarily with single stage to orbit capability. This book assesses whether the technology development, test and analysis programs in propulsion and materials-related technologies are properly constituted to provide the information required to support a December 1996 decision to build the X-33, a technology demonstrator vehicle; and suggest, as appropriate, necessary changes in these programs to ensure that they will support vehicle feasibility goals.
The X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Support to X-33/Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Program
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721010257
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Primary activities of Lee & Associates for the referenced Purchase Order has been in direct support of the X-33/Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Program. An independent review to evaluate the X-33 liquid hydrogen fuel tank failure, which recently occurred after-test of the starboard tank has been provided. The purpose of the Investigation team was to assess the tank design modifications, provide an assessment of the testing approach used by MSFC (Marshall Space Flight Center) in determining the flight worthiness of the tank, assessing the structural integrity, and determining the cause of the failure of the tank. The approach taken to satisfy the objectives has been for Lee & Associates to provide the expertise of Mr. Frank Key and Mr. Wayne Burton who have relevant experience from past programs and a strong background of experience in the fields critical to the success of the program. Mr. Key and Mr. Burton participated in the NASA established Failure Investigation Review Team to review the development and process data and to identify any design, testing or manufacturing weaknesses and potential problem areas. This approach worked well in satisfying the objectives and providing the Review Team with valuable information including the development of a Fault Tree. The detailed inputs were made orally in real time in the Review Team daily meetings. The results of the investigation were presented to the MSFC Center Director by the team on February 15, 2000. Attached are four charts taken from that presentation which includes 1) An executive summary, 2) The most probable cause, 3) Technology assessment, and 4) Technology Recommendations for Cryogenic tanks.Marshall Space Flight CenterX-33 REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE; FUEL TANKS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CRYOGENIC FLUID STORAGE; FAULT TREES; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION; STRUCTURAL FAILURE
The X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle
Author: United States. Congress. House. CommittePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295457489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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Reusable Booster System
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309266564
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
On June 15, 2011, the Air Force Space Command established a new vision, mission, and set of goals to ensure continued U.S. dominance in space and cyberspace mission areas. Subsequently, and in coordination with the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Space and Missile Systems Center, and the 14th and 24th Air Forces, the Air Force Space Command identified four long-term science and technology (S&T) challenges critical to meeting these goals. One of these challenges is to provide full-spectrum launch capability at dramatically lower cost, and a reusable booster system (RBS) has been proposed as an approach to meet this challenge. The Air Force Space Command asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to conduct an independent review and assessment of the RBS concept prior to considering a continuation of RBS-related activities within the Air Force Research Laboratory portfolio and before initiating a more extensive RBS development program. The committee for the Reusable Booster System: Review and Assessment was formed in response to that request and charged with reviewing and assessing the criteria and assumptions used in the current RBS plans, the cost model methodologies used to fame [frame?] the RBS business case, and the technical maturity and development plans of key elements critical to RBS implementation. The committee consisted of experts not connected with current RBS activities who have significant expertise in launch vehicle design and operation, research and technology development and implementation, space system operations, and cost analysis. The committee solicited and received input on the Air Force launch requirements, the baseline RBS concept, cost models and assessment, and technology readiness. The committee also received input from industry associated with RBS concept, industry independent of the RBS concept, and propulsion system providers which is summarized in Reusable Booster System: Review and Assessment.
The X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle: A New Way of Doing Business?
Author: United States Committee On SciencePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330410080
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Excerpt from The X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle: A New Way of Doing Business?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the Committee on Science, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, November 1, 1995 The subcommittee met at 10:05 a.m. in Room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Mr. Sensenbrenner. Good morning. Today the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics has convened a hearing on NASA's X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. This program and its timely successful execution is fundamental to achieving the National Space Transportation Strategy issued by President Clinton last August. If America can develop a fully reusable launch system with a simplified airline-like operation, the U.S. Government will not only enjoy the most economical access to space ever invented in the history of the space program, the industry team responsible for making that rocket will be able to capture international launch markets throughout the world which were lost by U.S. firms during the last ten years. If we were operating in an ideal world, the NASA X-33 Program's limited budget of just over a billion dollars would leverage enough total investment by the X-33 Cooperative Agreement Teams to buy down the extraordinary technological risks associated with developing a radically cheaper launch system and leave private industry with only business risks to assume in developing an operational launch system that pays for itself, reduces the government's launch costs, and still makes money for its investors. But of course everyone here knows this. This is Washington, D.C., and not the ideal world. The purpose of this hearing is to judge the distance between the ideal program we all want and the program we have underway, a program which the House fully funded earlier this year. To begin with, the program appears to suffer from an identity crisis of the first order. On the one hand we are told X-33 is an advanced technology demonstrator like the X-l or the X-15; on the other hand, we are told that this is an industry-led technology demonstration designed to commercialize a new launch system. Which is it? And what will it be? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Stephen A. Cook