Thursday, January 12, 2012

Online: A systems study of very small launch vehicles

A systems study of very small launch vehicles
MIT DSpace, 12 January 2012
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/9383

"Motivated by the continuing miniaturization of small satellites and ballistic payloads, this thesis studies the performance and feasilibity of very small launch vehicles (15kg - 2000kg liftoff mass)...Following the performance study, a 77kg vehicle (w/o gross payload) was carried through a preliminary design.

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