Aerospace century XXI: Space flight technologies; Proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual AAS International Conference, Boulder, CO, Oct. 26-29, 1986
Among the topics discussed are advanced electric propulsion for interplanetary missions, NASA Space Station propulsion, nuclear reactor-based space power systems, electrodynamic tethers for space power and thrust generation, exotic 21st-century spacecraft propulsion, control systems for autonomous operation of the Magellan spacecraft, spacecraft thermal management systems, aerobraking maneuver-related problems, and advanced heavy lift launch vehicles. Also discussed are a space telerobot concept, space-based robotic assembly and maintenance, advanced Al alloys and Al/polymer laminates for aerospace structures, lubrication for space environments, distributed and concurrent computation methods for space structures, and 32-GHz deep space communications.
- OSTI ID:
- 6949646
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8610219-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 33. annual meeting of the American Astronautical Society - aerospace: century 21, Boulder, CO, USA, 27 Oct 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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