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Article: Studies in the area of spacecraft and rockets reported from California Institute of Technology.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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"A new method for analyzing margins in the Constellation program is described and applied to the performance and mass margins for the integrated transportation system returning humans to the lunar surface," researchers in the United States report.
"The approach treats the Ares-V Earth-departure-stage gross payload-delivery capability and the translunar injection masses of Orion and Altair as random variables. For various vehicle requirements, vehicle control masses, and design reference missions, a Monte Carlo simulation estimate is used to estimate the critical probability that the delivery capability exceeds that injected mass," wrote B.K. Muirhead and ...
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