Synerjet for Earth/Orbit Propulsion: Revisiting the 1966 NASA/Marquardt Composite (Airbreathing/Rocket) Propulsion System Study Astronautics Technology Center Astronautics Corporation of America

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Escher, William J. D., author.

Conference Name:

Aerospace Vehicle Requirements Conference (1985-05-20 : Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1985

Summary:

A landmark study of Synerjet propulsion for fully-reusable Earth/orbit transport missions was conducted for NASA in 1965-67 by a study team of Marquardt, Rocketdyne, and Lockheed (the present author led this effort). Synerjet propulsion systems are fully integrated aerospace vehicle power-plants, comprising both airbreathing and rocket hardware subsystems and technologies. They are thereby capable of multimode operation using airbreathing, rocket, and certain mixed airbreathing/rocket thermodynamic operating cycles.The final report (9 volumes) deriving from this 20-year ago study could have applicability to post-Shuttle systems assessments currently underway. However, for reasons of passage-of-time and the (then) classified nature of the study, its documentation seems not well known, and to be in scarce availability today.This paper ameliorates this limited information-availability situation by providing a readily accessible, study overview for the interested reader

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Publisher Number:

851163

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