SOLAR THERMAL ROCKET ENGINE (STRE)

STRE provides the spacecraft delivery from low Earth orbit to high-altitude elliptic and circular orbits including the geostationary one, as well as to interplanetary trajectories within 10 to 60 days.

STRE is energized by a conventional power plant with solar arrays. STRE is covered by RF patents # 2126493. # 2145039. # 2150054. # 2176767. # 2197630.

The STRE is an environmentally-friendly dual-mode engine with electrically-heated heat accumulator, operating both on hot hydrogen and by afterburning of hot hydrogen with oxygen. The heating of the accumulator is powered by spacecraft solar arrays.

Main advantages of SPPS

- as compared to the conventional LRE's and solid rocket motors it has the considerably higher efficiency as to the fuel consumption.
- as compared to the electric rocket propulsion systems it provides sharp decreasing (by a factor of 5 to 10) the time of spacecraft delivery into GEO at using more beneficial flight trajectories .