January 2017
Beginner
792 pages
27h 26m
English
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INDEX
- Abbreviations and acronyms for chemical ingredients of solid propellants
- Ablative cooling and materials
- Acceleration of vehicle, terminal
- Acoustic velocity, see velocity of sound
- Acoustic absorbers, cavities
- Action time, see Burning time and action time
- Additive manufacturing
- Aerodynamic forces, see Drag; Lift
- AJ -10- 118I rocket engine, for Delta 2 launch vehicle upper stage
- Aerospike engine, see Nozzle, aerospike
- Aging of solid propellant
- Air launched rocket
- Altitude
- test facilities
- variation of atmospheric air
- properties (Appendix 2)
- variation of thrust with
- Aluminum or aluminum powder
- Ammonium nitrate (AN), Tab. 13–19
- Ammonium perchlorate (AP), see Particle size.
- Apogee, definition
- Applications of plume technology
- Applications of rocket propulsion
- Apsidal drift, Fig. 4–12
- Arcjet, see Electric propulsion
- Area ratio of nozzle, see Nozzle
- Atlas space launch vehicle, Fig. 12–2
- Atmospheric properties (see Appendix 2)
- Attitude control, see Reaction control
- Attitude control rocket propulsion or attitude control systems (ACS), see Auxiliary rockets
- Automatic engine controls
- Auxiliary rocket propulsion systems
- also called: Reaction Control Systems
- or Attitude Control Systems, see also
- thrusters
- for electric propulsion
- with liquid propellants
- with pulsing
- with solid propellants
- for orbital maintenance
- Back-flow barrier see Thermal shield
- Baffles, injector
- Ballistic missile (ICBM), Fig. 4–10
- Battery, see electric power
- Bearings (turbopump)
- Bell-shaped nozzle,
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