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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Space Access Where We ve Been And Where We Could Go

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency and dated 8 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It gives a historical and technical review of how to reach space and return. It covers hypersonic gliders, air-breathing and rocket propulsion, thermodynamics and materials, and launch options. It argues that reliable, schedulable access to low Earth orbit is mainly a hardware and propulsion problem rather than a technology one.

  • p. 33 …increasing the to-orbit weight ratio and gross weight and thereby making the concept less viable…
  • p. 35 …as an all-rocket reduces the liftoff gross weight of a HOTOL concept operating from atop…
  • p. 36 …LACE Air-Breathing Rocket Reduces Gross Liftoff Weight by 150 Metric Tons and Uses Existing Rocket…
  • p. 37 …in an exponential rise of the takeoff gross weight (as shown in Figure 34). The only…
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  • p. 40 UNCLASSIFIED/ ,I forced HTO mode would instead have a gross weight in excess of 1,000…
  • p. 53 …A hydrogen/oxygen rocket, vertical-launch vehicle with a 7,000-kg payload has a gross…
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Space Access: Where We've Been ... and Where We Could
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