一种单级入轨火箭发动机概念--气动塞式喷管发动机

综述了研制新一代可重复使用的航天运载器推进系统的需求和目标,介绍了一种单级入轨的火箭发动机概念──气动塞式喷管发动机,并给出了有关气动塞发动机的概念分析、研究进展和工作展望．     

一种单级入轨火箭发动机概念──气动塞式喷管发动机

综述了研制新一代可重复使用的航天运载器推进系统的需求和目标,介绍了一种单级入轨的火箭发动机概念──气动塞式喷管发动机,并给出了有关气动塞发动机的概念分析、研究进展和工作展望．     

Optimal Ascent Trajectories and Feasibility of Next-Generation Orbital Spacecraft

This paper deals with the optimization of the ascent trajectories for single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) and two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) rocket-powered spacecraft. The maximum payload weight problem is studied for various combinations of initial thrust-to-weight ratio, engine specific impulse, and spacecraft structural factor. For TSTO rocket-powered spacecraft, two cases are studied: uniform structural factor and nonuniform structural factor between stages.The main conclusions are that: the design of SSTO configurations might be comfortably feasible, marginally feasible, or unfeasible, depending on the parameter values assumed; the design of TSTO configurations is not only feasible, but the payload appears to be considerably larger than that of SSTO configurations; for the case of a nonuniform structural factor, the most attactive TSTO design appears to be a first-stage structure made of only tanks and a second-stage structure made of engines, tanks, electronics, and so on.Improvements in engine specific impulse and spacecraft structural factor are desirable and crucial for SSTO feasibility; indeed, aerodynamic improvements do not yield significant improvements in payload weight.For SSTO configurations, the maximum payload weight behaves almost linearly with respect to the engine specific impulse and the spacecraft structural factor. The same property holds for TSTO configurations as long as the ratio of the structural factors of Stage 2 and Stage 1 is held constant. With reference to the specific impulse/structural factor domain, this property leads to the construction of a zero-payload line separating the feasibility region (positive payload) from the unfeasibility region (negative payload).