Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications Publisher: ISBN: Category : Astronautics and state Languages : en Pages : 194
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications Publisher: ISBN: Category : Astronautics and state Languages : en Pages : 870
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Publisher: ISBN: Category : Competition Languages : en Pages : 88
Author: David N. Spires Publisher: ISBN: 9781585663118 Category : Ballistic missiles Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
"Assured Access: A History of the United States Air Force Space Launch Enterprise, 1945-2020 is a study of more than six decades of Air Force launch support for the nation's military, intelligence, and civilian space communities. From their inception as refurbished ballistic missiles, Air Force boosters have launched national security space payloads for the Defense Department (DOD) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), as well as for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and commercial and other civilian elements. Throughout this period, Air Force launch strategy has been to provide assured access to space by means of affordable, reliable, and responsive launch in order to guarantee assured access to space"--
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications Publisher: ISBN: Category : Astronautics and state Languages : en Pages : 204
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications Publisher: ISBN: Category : Astronautics and state Languages : en Pages : 884
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Research and Development Publisher: ISBN: Category : Space shuttles Languages : en Pages : 40
Author: Science Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781512000108 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
In the decades since the Apollo 11 launch, space technology has become vital to the United States' security, economy, and standard of living. American vehicles need reliable domestic space access for both unmanned and manned payloads. The tensions with Russia as a result of the Ukraine crisis have forced us to rethink part of the relationships that have built up, despite decades of cooperation. In the midst of the Cold War, an American spacecraft and a Soviet spacecraft rendezvoused, docked, and the crews lived together for 9 days in space. When the Cold War ended, we were rightly concerned that weapons and technology were going to get into the wrong hands. To keep a lot of those former Soviet engineers working, there was an extraordinarily successful program of the Nunn-Lugar effort to go in to gather up those nuclear weapons and simultaneously to support the Russian aerospace industry, and to buy the RD-180 engine. Today, those engines play a significant role in meeting our Nation's launch requirements. Now it is time that we have to consider an alternative.
Author: Forrest McCartney Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833039598 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
In 1994, the National Space Transportation Policy laid the framework for appropriate government agencies to maintain strong launch systems and infrastructure while modernizing space transportation capabilities and encouraging cost reductions. More than a decade later, through combined Department of Defense (DoD) and industrial investment, the two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) families of U.S. rockets (Atlas V and Delta IV) have proved to be maturing, reliable state-of-the-art technologies. In 2004, Congress directed the Secretary of Defense to establish a panel of experts with extensive space launch and operations background to address the future National Security Space launch requirements and the means of meeting those requirements. DoD selected RAND to facilitate and support this panel in its deliberations between May 2005 and May 2006. This report analyzes the National Security Space (NSS) Launch Requirements Panel's major findings and recommendations. In short, the Panel concludes that, because basic rocketry principles, use of chemically derived thrust, and multiple expendable stages seem certain to remain the design of choice for operational space launch vehicles, the EELV can satisfy all known and projected NSS requirements through 2020.