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Technology Database  Space Astronautics
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| SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM |
| The design concept determines the markets for the Air Launch system:
Deployment and replenishment of global LEO communications satellite constellations;
Orbiting Earth monitoring satellites (remote sensing, emergency situation control);
Deployment and replenishment of LEO navigation satellite constellations;
Insertion of small and medium class spacecraft into LEO, MEO, high elliptical and escape orbits for scientific use. |
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| NUCLEAR JET-PROPULSION ENGINE FOR INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT |
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chemical and nuclear (jet-propulsion engines (CJPE and NJPE respectively) have a
relatively small velocity of combustion products ( heated work body, in NJPE)
discharged from the engine nozzle, and may therefore be used only for flights in
space or for launching automatic stations to planets of the Solar system to
receive information from them, which may take màny years. |
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