Using the Black Sea as airspace for satellites launching

Author

Savu, George

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Turbomachinery, COMOTI, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

501

Abstract

The Black Sea could be used as safe space for launchings. It is analyzed the case of using the existing launch system of Orbital Corporation and a new, similar system with different carrier aircraft and different rocket. The dynamics of the single stage rocket on the ascending trajectory to low orbit (SSTO) together with the calculation of main dimensions and masses is analyzed. The obtained performances show that the Black Sea has enough space to ensure the frame for optimum launching of satellites from West to East. The rotation of Earth at the latitude of Black Sea ensures the satellization velocity at 7.6 km/s instead of 7.9.

Keywords

artificial satellites; oceanographic regions; Black Sea; Earth rotation; Orbital Corporation; airspace; satellites launching; satellization velocity; velocity 7.6 km/s; velocity 7.9 km/s; Aerodynamics; Air safety; Aircraft manufacture; Low earth orbit satellites; Orbital calculations; Rockets; Sea coast; Sea surface; Space missions; Turbomachinery; Black Sea; aircraft launching; low orbit; satellite;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2009. RAST '09. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3627-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3628-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2009.5158249

Filename

5158249