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a vertical take off horizontal landing RBCC SSTO vehicle, shown in Figure 1.
Projects and authors of the original source are listed in the database where
available.
Figure 1: RBCC SSTO vehicle. [ref. 2]
3. Dr. Ted Talay
Dr. Talay worked in the Vehicle Analysis Branch at NASA Langley Research
Center. These equations were handed out as class notes for ME250, Launch
Vehicle Design, at George Washington University in 1992, which he taught.
Their emphasis is on rocket powered vehicles. Many of the equations provided
are based on the Space Shuttle.
4. Marquardt report NAS7-377 [iv]
a. These equations are from a report by The Marquardt Corporation in 1966.
They are published in NAS7-377, a study of composite propulsion systems on
launch vehicle mass. The study vehicle is TSTO, and takes off horizontally.
The first stage uses the composite propulsion system on multiple body
configurations. The lifting body version of the first stage can be seen in Figure
2 with the second stage attached. Conical and cylindrical body versions were
also modeled with these equations.
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