Multi-Stage Launch Vehicle Performance Exchange Ratios,

Abstract

A series of equations has been developed relating the changes in final stage burnout weight, payload weight and expendable propellant weight to changes in jettison weight, expendable propellant weight and specific impulse of any stage of a multi-stage launch vehicle. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 06, 1962
Accession Number
AD0861349

Entities

People

  • F. R. Sedlund

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Equations
  • Expendable
  • Launch Vehicles
  • Propellants
  • Specific Impulse
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Software Engineering