ClearSpace just signed a contract with Arianespace for the launch of its servicer spacecraft ClearSpace-1 with the European launcher Vega C. ClearSpace-1 will rendezvous, capture, and remove a piece of space debris as the world's first mission commissioned by the ESA, and supported by ...
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Recovering anything from the surface is a major issue: This is energetically similar to a launch in Earth orbit, with mass ratios higher than 20, but the launcher has to start under the equivalent of 900 m of water (400 m at the top of Maxwell Montes, the highest mountain of Venus). ...
significant take-off weight reductions could be achieved. This atmospheric oxygen can be stored in some form on-board to be further used as the oxidiser. The novel SABRE[70]engine being developed for the Skylon space launcher utilises an evolved version of their original Liquid Air Cycle Engine...
The first pan-European launch vehicle program was the European Launcher Development Organization's Europa I of the 1960s. This medium lift vehicle consisted of a British first stage (Blue Streak), a French second stage (Veronique), and a German third stage. After several attempts without a sin...
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Average launcher performance is considered and the best solution is found by means of Box-Behnken's array. Finally, the identified robust solution is checked against the second group of parameters uncertainties previously neglected in the robust optimization procedure. The scattering of the robust ...
Of course, for a one-stage launcher the burn-out time cannot be arbitrarily chosen but instead must be that at which orbital velocity is achieved. However for a multi-stage launcher the burn-out time for any stage but the last may be set by the mass of propellant carried. The last ...
Like every Ariane launcher since the first flights in the 1980s, the Ariane 5-C is designed for the simultaneous injection of two payloads into GTO. For this reason, the basic requirement corresponds to roughly two times the largest payload expected by 2005 or so. Ariane 5-C will be compo...
When it does occur, however, serious attenuation of radio signals is the rule. The picture is complicated even further when it is remembered that multiple exhaust nozzles, swivelling nozzles and jet deflectors are common-place on modern rocket launchers. Again, it is possible for frozen, non...