METHOD FOR PLACING PAYLOAD IN ORBIT BY MULTIFUNCTIONAL LAUNCH VEHICLE OF COMBINED SCHEME WITH CRUISE LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE SYSTEM (LRES), MULTIFUNCTIONAL LAUNCH VEHICLE OF COMBINED SCHEME WITH CRUISE LRES AND METHOD FOR REFINING IT

Patent 6769651 Issued on August 3, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date:

January 6, 2023. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Federalnoe Gosudarstvennoe Unitarnoe Predpriyatie Gosudarstvenny Kosmichesky Nauchno-Proizvodstvenny Tsentr IM.M.V. Krunicheva

Application

No. 10336810 filed on 01/06/2003

Examiners

Primary: Dinh, Tan

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P.

Foreign Patent References

0763468 EP 03/01/1997
1114414 GB 06/01/1964
WO0156880 WO 09/01/2001

International Class

B64G 140

Abstract

The invention relates to a space-rocket technology an can be used for both a pilot-controlled and unpiloted space craft in the earth's orbit. The inventive method consists in igniting-up cruising liquid-fuel rocket engines (LRE) of all assembly units, when the propulsion power of LRE of the side units is set to maximum and the LRE of the central unit is set relatively low.

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