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词条 RS-88
释义

  1. Bantam Launch System

  2. Pad abort demonstration

  3. Rocketplane

  4. Boeing CST-100

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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The RS-88 is a liquid-fueled rocket engine burning ethanol as fuel, and using liquid oxygen (LOX) as the oxidizer. It was designed and built by Rocketdyne, originally for the NASA Bantam System Technology program (1997). In 2003, it was designated by Lockheed for their pad abort demonstration (PAD) vehicle. NASA tested the RS-88 in a series of 14 hot-fire tests, resulting in 55 seconds of successful engine operation in November and December 2003. The RS-88 engine proved to be capable of {{convert|50000|lbf|kN|abbr=on}} of thrust at sea level. The RS-88 engine has been selected for usage as the CST-100 launch escape system and is being tested by Boeing (2011).[1]

Bantam Launch System

The Bantam System Technology Project, which is part of the Low Cost Technologies effort, teams NASA and its business partners to research and demonstrate technologies for a new low-cost launch system. A technology demonstration flight was targeted for late 1999.[2]

The RS-88 engine was designed by Rocketdyne under NASA's Bantam program[3] which was the propulsion element of the low-cost technologies of the larger Advanced Space Transportation Program.

Pad abort demonstration

The RS-88 engine was modified and tested in 2003 [4] for application on the Lockheed-Martin pad abort demonstration (PAD) vehicle. Critical design review of the PAD propulsion module occurred in mid-2004, but the planned use of the vehicle in CEV development was evidently abandoned. Lockheed Martin's PAD vehicle was originally scheduled for launch in late 2005 and would have carried four RS-88 engines.

Rocketplane

In January 2006 it was announced that NASA was loaning the RS-88 rocket engine to Rocketplane, of Oklahoma City, as part of an innovative industry partnership program.[5] NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, and the company signed a Space Act Agreement for use of an RS-88 engine in tests of its Rocketplane XP vehicle for three years. The company was to provide NASA with design, test and operational information from the development. The Rocketplane XP was a four-seat, modified Lear executive jet. It would have incorporated a rocket engine for acceleration to achieve a planned peak altitude of almost 300,000 feet.

"With NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the support of local, state and federal governments, we hope to develop a safe, affordable and reusable spaceplane by integrating established technologies, such as the RS-88 engine," said Bob Seto, Rocketplane's vice president of engineering systems and analysis. According to Seto, the craft completed a preliminary design review in March 2005, and it was in the detail design phase.

Rocketplane filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidation in 2010.[6]

Boeing CST-100

The launch escape system for Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft uses a lightweight, hypergolic derivative of the RS-88 called the Launch Abort Engine (LAE).[7]

See also

  • NASA Advanced Space Transportation Program
  • CST-100
  • Constellation program
  • Merlin (rocket engine)

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Test of Rocketdyne abort motor for Boeing crew capsule|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOv1ew1GPKc|work=youtube.com|accessdate=24 November 2011}}
2. ^{{cite press release |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/lct.html |title=Low Cost Technologies |publisher=NASA |date=June 1997}}
3. ^{{cite press release |url=http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/8-19awrd.htm |title=NASA Selects Four Companies to Demonstrate Low Cost Launch System Technologies |publisher=NASA |id=Release C97 |date=June 9, 1997 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120044002/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/8-19awrd.htm |archivedate=November 20, 2011 |df= }}
4. ^{{cite press|title=Boeing Successfully Tests New Engine for NASA Program|publisher=Boeing|date=Jan 29, 2004|url=http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2004/q1/nr_040129m.html|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419152822/http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2004/q1/nr_040129m.html|archivedate=2012-04-19|df=}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=NASA Loans Engine to Industry Partner|publisher=NASA|date=Jan 24, 2006|url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/jan/HQ_06034_Rocketplane_partners.html}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Former Oklahoma Rocketplane's bankruptcy may be last stop on itinerary|publisher=NewsOK.com|date=8/10/2010 |url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=45&articleid=20100810_46_E1_CUTLIN977726}}
7. ^{{cite web|title = PWR Analyzing Hot-Fire Tests For CST-100 Launch Abort Engine.|url = http://www.beyondearth.com/news-2/pwr-analyzing-cst-100-abort-engine-tests|work = http://www.beyondearth.com|accessdate = 5 September 2015|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923184122/http://www.beyondearth.com/news-2/pwr-analyzing-cst-100-abort-engine-tests|archivedate = 23 September 2015|df = }}

External links

{{commons category|RS-88 (rocket engine)}}
  • Marshall SFC Star June 11, 1997.
  • [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050237017_2005207085.pdf RS-88 PAD Testing at NASA MSFC May 2005, AIAA]
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