EFFECT OF DESIGN ON BOOSTER CHARACTERISTICS,
Abstract
A simple and rapid method for assessing the effect of booster design variables on over-all booster characteristics is presented. This method is applicable to all boosters, regardless of whether they are expendable, reusable, rocket-powered or airbreathing. The computations involved are minimal and many results are obtainable in a purely analytical manner. Furthermore, a convenient graphical representation of gross-to-payload and hardware-to-payload mass ratios, as well as the sensitivity of these ratios to design changes, is also obtained. Design procedures are given which (by properly dividing the required velocity increase among the booster stages) minimize, per unit of payload weight, one of the following: gross weight, hardware weight and/or harware costs per use. In these procedures the structural factors and the specific impulses are permitted to vary with stage size and booster velocity, respectively. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0661961
Entities
People
- Artur Mager
Organizations
- The Aerospace Corporation