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NASA Glenn Research Center's Hypersonic Propulsion ProgramNASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), as NASA's lead center for aeropropulsion, is responding to the challenge of reducing the cost of space transportation through the integration of air-breathing propulsion into launch vehicles. Air- breathing launch vehicle (ABLV) propulsion requires a marked departure from traditional propulsion applications. and stretches the technology of both rocket and air-breathing propulsion. In addition, the demands of the space launch mission require an unprecedented level of integration of propulsion and vehicle systems. GRC is responding with a program with rocket-based combined cycle (RBCC) propulsion technology as its main focus. RBCC offers the potential for simplicity, robustness, and performance that may enable low-cost single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) transportation. Other technologies, notably turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) propulsion, offer benefits such as increased robustness and greater mission flexibility, and are being advanced, at a slower pace, as part of GRC's program in hypersonics.
Document ID
19990053005
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Palac, Donald T.
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1999
Subject Category
Aircraft Propulsion And Power
Report/Patent Number
E-11696
NAS 1.15:209185
NASA/TM-1999-209185
Meeting Information
Meeting: Airbreathing Engines
Location: Florence
Country: Italy
Start Date: September 5, 1999
End Date: September 10, 1999
Sponsors: Canadian Aeronautics and Space Inst., Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Academy of Sciences (USSR), American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 523-61-13
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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