Lamontagne, Anne (2012) Airship configurations. White Word Publications, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132343424
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The orbital airship , also called the space blimp , is a proposed space transportation system that carries payloads to and from low Earth orbit .It is intended to achieve orbital altitude and orbital velocity using low thrust rocket propulsion by flying in the manner of an airship rather than a rocket , employing buoyancy and aerodynamic lift rather than vertical thrust to sustain flight during its ascent JP Aerospace's Airship to Orbit In the Airship To Orbit ( ATO ) design envisioned by JP Aerospace , there are three components A conventional airship (" Ascender " ) lifts payloads up to 30 to 43 kilometers above the ground roughly the maximum altitude a conventional airship can achieve .At this altitude the second component , a docking station ( " Dark Sky Station " ) , acts as a resupply station for the third stage . The third stage is an orbital airship ( Orbital Ascender " ), which takes payloads to low carth orbit ( ie , it accelerates itself horizontally to orbital velocity and gains an altitude in excess of 100 km ) over several days Their program sponsors and business revenues have continued to provide their development costs thus far. They funded part of their operation until 2005 with a contract for development of military communication and surveillance airships designed to hover over battlefields at altitudes too high for conventional anti-aircraft systems. They had hoped to fly a prototype in 2005, but the vehicle was damaged during testing and the contract was discontinued. Other vehicles are still under development, and IP acrospace has subsequently flown several acrostats as testbeds for ATO hardware and techniques. Multiple vehicles are needed because any airship made strong enough to survive the relatively surbulent lower atmosphere would be too heavy to lift payloads to space. An orbital airship would need to be built larger to improve its buoyancy-to-weight ratio, with thinner walls, and designed to operate at notably lower pressure. Even in the outer fringes of the atmosphere, helium is still lighter than air. Both the conventional and orbital airships will be V-shaped for aerodynamics. The orbital aurship wings will be shaped to function as hypersonic airfoils and can be angled upwards to help generate lift.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2022 08:01 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2022 08:01 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3574 |
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