The Rocket Company - Couverture souple

Stiennon, Patrick; Hoerr, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1563476967 ISBN 13 : 9781563476969

Editeur : American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 2005

Synopsis

This richly illustrated book is a fictionalized account of the challenges faced by a group of seven investors and their engineering team in developing a low-cost, reusable, Earth-to-orbit launch vehicle. The marketing, regulatory and technical problems are explored, making it an excellent and readable introduction to the technical aspects and challenges facing todays designers, entrepreneurs, regulators, legislators, and investors.
The business model presented includes numerous timely scenarios and ideas:

• Considering a reusable launch vehicle as a product, which has a different market and better cash flow, than the market for launch services
• Using clever engineering to solve the problem of an economical reusable launch vehicle with existing technology
• Greatly increasing the supply of launch capacity, with a reusable vehicle that has low marginal costs per flight, is necessary to drive down the cost of launch to low Earth orbit
• Using modifications of the same basic vehicle to gain access to the inner solar system at reasonable cost.

The increased dedication by both private individuals and government institutions to solving the problem of low-cost, reusable launch vehicles makes this book necessary reading for all those involved in developing solutions. The Rocket Company provides a point of departure for building a consensus on how to take the process through to low cost access to orbit and beyond.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patrick J. G. Stiennon is an experienced aerospace engineer and patent attorney at Stiennon & Stiennon, Madison, Wisconsin. He is a Senior Member of AIAA

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1563476967
• ISBN 13: 9781563476969
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Birkholz Doug
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible