Preliminary design of an experimental world-circling spaceship, 1946 May 2.

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Douglas Aircraft Company. Preliminary design of an experimental world-circling spaceship, 1946 May 2.

Preliminary design of an experimental world-circling spaceship, 1946 May 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571687

This report presents an engineering analysis of the possibilities of designing a man-made satellite. The question of power plants, structural weights, multiple stages, optimum design values, trajectories, stability, and landing are considered in detail. The results are used to furnish designs for two proposed vehicles. The first is a four stage rocket using alcohol and liquid oxygen as a propellant. The second is a two stage rocket using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants. There are three drawings and unmerous tables and graphs.

1 v. (320 pp)

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