Space Commercialization : Launch Vehicles and Programs.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (293 pages)
- Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics ; v.126 .
- Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Long March Launch Vehicles in the 1990s -- Advent of Commercial Space -- ISAS's New Launch Vehicle for Science Use -- NASA Directions in Space Propulsion for 2000 and Beyond -- Establishing a Center for Advanced Space Propulsion -- Possible Uses of the External Tank in Orbit -- Pegasus: Key to Low-Cost Space Applications -- Power from the Space Shuttle -- SP-100 Nuclear Space Power Systems with Application to Space Commercialization -- Power from Space for Use on Earth: An Emerging Global Option -- Legal Problems of Developing Countries' Access to Space Launch Vehicles -- International Law of Responsibility for Remote Sensing -- Obstacles to Space Commercialization in the Developing World: Lessons from Landsat -- Hermes Ground Segment: Support for European Orbital Infrastructure Operations -- Raumkurier: The German Recovery Program -- Joint DoD/NASA Advanced Launch System: Pathway to Low-Cost, Highly Operable Space Transportation -- Broad-Based Space Education: Prerequisite for Space Commercialization -- Low-Cost Satellites and Satellite Launch Vehicles -- Satellite Launch and TT& -- C Systems of China and Their Roles in International Cooperation -- Ariane Transfer Vehicle: Logistic Support to Space Station Freedom -- Author Index for Volume 126.
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Launch vehicles (Astronautics) -- Congresses. Space industrialization -- Congresses. Astronautics -- Developing countries -- Congresses.