Descrizione del progetto
Studiare le tecnologie per veicoli di lancio riutilizzabili ad atterraggio verticale
I veicoli di lancio riutilizzabili stanno cambiando il mercato globale dei sistemi di trasporto spaziale, promettendo di ridurre i costi di accesso allo spazio. I razzi esistenti utilizzano un lancio a decollo e atterraggio verticale e decelerano sparando i loro motori contro il vettore di velocità, la cosiddetta retropropulsione. Il progetto RETALT, finanziato dall’UE, mira a studiare le tecnologie chiave per i sistemi di lancio riutilizzabili a retropropulsione. Il consorzio esaminerà gli aspetti legati all’aerodinamica e all’aerotermodinamica (temperature superficiali in volo) e le dinamiche di volo durante le fasi di andata e ritorno, così come la navigazione e il controllo. Esplorerà anche i componenti strutturali, i materiali e i meccanismi dei razzi riutilizzabili.
Obiettivo
For Europe’s non-dependence, access to space is crucial. To foster the European industry competitiveness, the costs of the European launch systems need to be reduced and flexibility needs to be improved. The development of reusable launch vehicle (RLV) is currently changing the global market of space transportation systems and is promising immense cost savings. The only operational approach of RLV to date is the Vertical Take-off Vertical Landing launcher (VTVL), which is decelerating by firing its engines against the velocity vector, the so called retro propulsion. The know-how in the technologies of retro propulsion assisted landing in Europe is spares. In this project we aim to investigate and developed these technologies.
Therefore, the two main scientific and technological objectives of the RETALT project are:
• To investigate the launch system reusability technology of VTVL TSTO (Vertical Take-off Vertical Landing - Two Stage To Orbit) by applying retro propulsion combined with aerodynamic control surfaces that is currently dominating the global market.
• To investigate the launch system reusability technology of VTVL SSTO RLV (Vertical Take-off Vertical Landing - Single Stage To Orbit) applying retro propulsion for future space transportation systems.
To meet these two main project objectives of the project, described above, two reference launch vehicle configurations will be defined:
• A configuration similar to the SpaceX rocket “Falcon 9” that will be the reference for the state-of-the-art TSTO RLV.
• A configuration similar to the DC-X that will serve as a reference for a VTVL SSTO.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
51147 Koln
Germania