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 Third Edition

Future
Spacecraft
Propulsion
Systems
and Integration
Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration

Paul A. Czysz
Claudio Bruno
Bernd Chudoba
Springer Praxis Books

Astronautical Engineering
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5495
Paul A. Czysz Claudio Bruno
•

Bernd Chudoba

Future Spacecraft Propulsion

Systems and Integration
Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration
Third Edition

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Paul A. Czysz Bernd Chudoba
Parks College of Engineering, Aviation Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
and Technology (MAE), AVD (Aerospace Vehicle
Saint Louis University Design) Laboratory
St. Louis, MS The University of Texas at Arlington
USA Arlington, TX
USA
Claudio Bruno
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
USA

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Astronautical Engineering
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Foreword I

We are pleased to introduce the 3rd updated edition of Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
and Integration—Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration by Czysz, Bruno and
Chudoba.
The authors, a team of internationally renowned specialists in the fields of hypersonics,
propulsion, and reusable vehicle conceptual design, are skillfully introducing the broad
spectrum of past-to-present and present-to-future space missions. Starting with the
historic-momentous flight of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, this book step-by-step builds the
case for future fully reusable and economically viable multi-flight space transportation systems
for payloads and/or humans to Earth orbits and beyond. Adopting the mind-set
design-to-mission, the authors are systematically introducing the potential and limitations
of the full range of traditional to exotic propulsion cycles and flight vehicle design integration
schemes.
In order to comprehend the variety of space missions, from Earth-orbit commerce to
galactic space exploration, the authors begin with a highly interesting scenario of astronomical
definitions, basics, and considerations of various interplanetary missions to still visionary
journeys beyond our Solar System, e.g., to Alpha Centauri. This third edition of the book adds
significant material emphasizing the comprehensive multi-disciplinary toolbox required for
space mission and space technology forecasting. The overarching theme throughout this book
is reusable systems, a necessary prerequisite toward a first-generation space infrastructure. In
order to facilitate technology forecasting, the authors derive a system-level sizing methodol-
ogy which is catalyst to correctly quantify what is needed to design to mission, a mandatory
capability for futurists, decision-makers, CTOs, and engineers alike.
When reading this book, we are directly reminded of our own former professional career
developing the reusable two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) MBB SÄNGER II concept in Germany in
the 1980s. This effort demanded us continuously screening international competitive concepts
and technology preparatory activities including the development of dedicated technology
demonstrators often requiring comprehensive international collaboration. During this highly
stimulating era, the analogous conceptual and technological goals of the US
single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) project created a tremendous
hype which provided the impetus for the foundation of the AIAA International Hypersonics
Conference, an international forum significantly promoted by Richard “Dick” Culpepper of
Robert Barthelemey’s NASP team. The first conference took place in 1992 in Orlando,
Florida. Thanks to our increasing SÄNGER activities, the 1993 conference was hosted in
Munich, Germany. Since then, the conference was renamed into AIAA International Space
Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference. During the following decade,
this conference was held each second year at various locations.
Two of the authors (Czysz and Bruno) were continuously attending and have been highly
appreciated speakers and session chairmen. Their unique expertise delivered valuable inputs to
upcoming reusable space transportation system concepts encompassing a variety of air-
breathing propulsion systems and novel vehicle integration reasoning. It has been this rich and
vibrant era of international reusable aerospace vehicle development which is uniquely

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reflected in this 3rd edition of Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration—
Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration.
Unfortunately, our friend and conference promoter “Dick” Culpepper passed away in 2003.
Our colleague and appreciated adviser and author Paul Czysz passed in 2013 after having been
a mainstay in hypersonics and reusable space access for several decades. The whole hyper-
sonics community is grateful for their valuable and enduring contributions. We are especially
pleased to see an effective knowledge continuation with author Czysz working with author
Chudoba since 2004. The 3rd edition of this book is testimony that this crucial body of
propulsion and vehicle integration knowledge will be retained and continued.
Working with this book the reader will experience the immense amount of knowledge
which can be made applicable for his specific objective by applying these experts’ findings
and recommendations. This book is a must-read for dedicated development work and studies
in the field of spacecraft propulsion, flight vehicle integration, and its enabling technologies, as
of today as well as for future missions and systems.

Heribert Kuczera & Peter W. Sacher

Members of the MBB-SÄNGER-Team (1988–1995), AIAA Associate Fellows
and authors of Reusable Space Transportation Systems (Springer, 2011)
Foreword II

It is indeed my pleasure to introduce the 3rd edition of Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems
and Integration by Czysz, Bruno, and Chudoba. This book starts by describing the seminal
event in space exploration—the Russian launch of the Sputnik satellite—which occurred in
1957 and was the singular impetus for the creation of my agency, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency or DARPA one year later. DARPA is a bold agency that starts bold
programs to explore unproven solutions to the most difficult problems for the Department of
Defense. Like DARPA, this is a bold book that makes bold assumptions and hypotheses about
how we should go about exploring the heavens. Many of these assumptions and hypotheses
cannot be necessarily proven with what we know currently about the way the world works.
However, I think the authors intentionally stretch our imaginations as they propose a vision for
the exploration of our Solar System and beyond.
As I read this book, I found myself trying to imagine the heavens and the immensity of our
universe. It humbles one to think about how large our world really is and Czysz, Bruno, and
Chudoba do an excellent job of describing this world in a way that makes you want to suit up,
jump in the next rocket, and go explore it.
But the rocket is the issue, isn’t it? We don’t have vehicles or propulsion systems that will
let us explore the outer reaches of our world today. Czysz, Bruno, and Chudoba help the
reader envision the propulsion concepts and flight vehicle systems that will be required to
explore more of our universe. Using well-known equations and formulas, they offer vehicle
and propulsion solutions that have the potential to help us break the bonds of Earth more
efficiently than we can today. Will all of these concepts work? Do they all have merit? I would
venture to say the answer is no but that should not stop us from applying the scientific method
and some good, solid engineering rigor to these problem sets and from determining how we
can build systems that take us to Mars and beyond.
Like DARPA’s penchant for taking on high-risk, high-payoff projects, Czysz, Bruno, and
Chudoba take on the high-risk but very high-payoff challenge of how to fully explore our solar
system and beyond. So jump in, buckle up, and get ready for a wild ride.

Steven H. Walker Ph.D.

Acting Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
AIAA Fellow

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Preface to Third Edition

The third edition of this book was born not only to update the state of the art of propulsion
technology, but, more significantly, also to honor the memory of Paul A. Czysz, who was
instrumental in proposing and leading the previous two editions. Paul Anthony Czysz died on
August 16, 2013. He is credited with the development of a pragmatic system-level propulsion
and aerospace design methodology. This was born from his design and testing experience in
the USAF and at McDonnell Douglas, with the purpose of supporting the decision-maker by
mathematically and visually identifying the available hardware solution space as a function
of the mission. In addition to this book, Paul’s work has been published in four books and in
numerous technical articles. His original style in guiding and quantifying “design to mission”
will remain a model for generations of engineers to come. A second difference with the two
previous editions is the much greater emphasis placed on the integration of propulsion systems
for hypersonic cruise aircraft and hypersonic accelerators facilitating space launch. This is the
work of Professor Bernd Chudoba, the new co-author and specialist in this field.
The prime motivation for this book is the fact that humankind has been dreaming of
traveling to space for a long time. In the early 1960s, there was a dedicated push to develop
vehicle configurations that would permit us to travel to space and back through the atmosphere
as readily and conveniently as flying on an airliner. That idea was unavoidably coupled with
propulsion concepts that relied on capturing the oxygen within our atmosphere, instead of
carrying it onboard from the ground up as expendable satellite launchers still do now. Given
the slow technology progress since 1957, space access and space flight still suffer from limited
performance due to high cost, mass consumption, and energy requirements, with consequent
limited acceleration and relatively slow speed. During the 1960s, the concept of space travel
extended beyond our planet, to our Solar System and the galaxy beyond (see Chap. 1), using
power sources other than chemical, such as fission and fusion. It was then and still is rec-
ognized that any operational space flight transportation system is defined and limited by three
key elements: (a) propulsion, (b) gravity, and (c) inertia. Future space flight requires advancing
the understanding of all three areas. The first area (a) is primarily an engineering domain and is
hardware driven, while the remaining two (b and c) are the domain of physics.
Accordingly, any significant advance in operational space capability will be a direct effect
of revolutionary breakthroughs in high-thrust/high-efficiency propulsion and of gravity and
inertia modulation. As the present outlook for breakthroughs in gravity and/or inertia is very
uncertain, this book does focus on propulsion and the effect of its integration on the mission,
the hardware and key technologies. The development of new manned space vehicles and
launchers involves thousands of man-years. From the initial concept and through its gestation
phase to the final product, how can the design team develop confidence in its performance and
understanding of risks while committing very costly resources (see Chap. 2)? In this context,
the trend toward space commercialization suggests the same approach seen with more con-
ventional markets, where the mission objective is guided by continuous and sound evaluation
of the product design and of its engineering or economics margins. This is in fact the inte-
grated approach developed in Chap. 3.

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Traveling to space in the near future is a multi-step process. The first is to realize a two-way
transport to and from low Earth orbit (LEO); see Chaps. 4 and 5. This is a critical first step as it
is the key to moving away from our Earth environment while being very expensive. In any
future space scenario or market, economics dictates that travel to and from LEO must be
frequent and affordable. From a vision of spacecraft parked in LEO, there are then several
options. The geosynchronous orbit or geostationary orbit (GSO) is at an altitude of 35,853 km
(22,278 statute miles) and has an equatorial orbital period of 24 hours, so it is stationary over
any fixed point on Earth. These orbits are home to commercial telecommunication satellites.
The second critical step is an elliptical transfer orbit to the Moon. The orbital speed to reach
the Moon is less than the speed to escape Earth’s gravity, so the transfer orbit is elliptical
(a closed curve) which does require less energy (but more logistics) than reaching GSO.
Depending on the specific speed/orbit selected, the time to reach the Moon ranges from 56 to
100 hours. The Apollo program selected a 72-hour travel orbit from LEO (see Chap. 6). In
terms of time, the Moon is truly close to us.
A third and far more eventful critical step is to achieve escape speed. This is a factor square
root of two (about 1.41) faster than orbital speed. At escape speed and faster, the spacecraft
trajectory is an open parabola or hyperbola. There is no longer a closed path for returning the
spacecraft to Earth. So now we can move away from the gravitational control of Earth (not
from gravity!) to explore our Solar System (see Chap. 7) and beyond.
There is a challenge of time, distance, and propulsion as we proceed farther and farther to
explore our Solar System, then nearby Galactic space, and finally our galaxy. Exploring
beyond our galaxy is technically far beyond our current or projected capabilities. Our
understanding of propulsion, mass, inertia, and time will have to be different (see Chaps. 8 and
9). Understanding mass and inertia may be the most challenging. Inertia is a resistance to
change of speed or direction. As we approach light speed, inertia/mass approaches infinity. As
the mass approaches infinity, the thrust required to maintain constant acceleration approaches
also infinity. Thus, at present, we do not know how to exceed the speed of light. If that remains
the case, we are trapped within the environs of our Solar System.
An inertia-linked issue is human tolerance of continuous acceleration for long periods.
Nominally that is assumed about three times the Earth’s gravitational acceleration at sea level.
At that acceleration, the time to reach a distant destination is numerically on the same order as
the distance in light years. So, if a crewed spacecraft is to return to Earth within the lifetime of
its occupants, we are again limited to about 20 light-years. That is within the distances to the
seven or eight closest stars to our Sun.
As much as the authors would like to show how to travel in Galactic space, that will require
breakthroughs in physics, not just propulsion. Until that time, we have much to explore and
discover within the environs of our Solar System.
Coming down from Galactic space to life on Earth, these authors would like to
acknowledge our spouses, Elena Prestini and Andrea Chudoba for their patience and support,
and Christian Dujarric (formerly at ESA), Georg Poschmann (formerly at Airbus Industrie),
Paul March at NASA, and Friedwardt Winterberg at The University of Nevada, for providing
figures, articles, and comments. Special thanks go to our Editor at Springer, Ms. Janet
Starrett-Brunner for her constant attention to our requests; without her, writing this book
would have taken much longer.

East Hartford, Storrs, USA Claudio Bruno

Arlington, Texas, USA Bernd Chudoba
June 2017
Preface to First and Second Edition

Humankind has been dreaming of traveling to space for a long time. Jules Verne thought we
could reach the moon with a giant cannon in the 1800s. In the early 1960s, there was a
dedicated push to develop the vehicle configurations that would permit us to travel to space,
and back through the atmosphere, as readily and conveniently as flying on an airliner to
another continent and back. That idea, or intuition, was necessarily coupled with advanced
propulsion system concepts, that relied on capturing the oxygen within our atmosphere instead
of carrying it onboard from the ground up, as rockets developed in Germany in the 1940s did,
and as satellite launchers still do. During the 1960s, the concept of space travel extended
beyond our planet, to our Solar System and the galaxy beyond (see Chap. 1), using power
sources other than chemical, such as fission and fusion. Not much is left nowadays of those
dreams, except our present capability to build those advanced propulsion systems.
Traveling to space in the foreseeable future is a multi-step process. The first step is to
achieve a two-way transport to and from orbit around our Earth, that is, a low Earth orbit
(LEO); see Chaps. 2, 4, and 5. This is a critical first step as it is the key to moving away from
our Earth environment. For any future development in space, travel that transits to and from
LEO must be frequent and affordable. From a vision of spacecraft parked in LEOs, there are
then several options. One is a geosynchronous orbit or geostationary orbit (GSO) that is at an
altitude of 35,853 km (22,278 statute miles) and has an equatorial orbital period of 24 hours,
so it is stationary over any fixed point on Earth. Another option for the next step is an elliptical
transfer orbit to the Moon. The orbital speed to reach the Moon is less than the speed to escape
Earth’s orbit, so the transfer orbit is elliptical, and requires less energy to accomplish (but more
logistics) than reaching GSO. Depending on the specific speed selected, the time to reach the
Moon is between 100 and 56 hours. In fact, the Apollo program selected a speed corre-
sponding to a 72-hour travel time from LEO to the vicinity of the Moon (see Chap. 6): in terms
of the time needed to reach it, the Moon is truly close to us. All circular and elliptical orbits
are, mathematically speaking, closed conics.
Another and far more eventful option is to achieve escape speed, that is a factor square root
of two faster than orbital speed. At escape speed and faster the spacecraft trajectory is an open
conic (i.e., a parabola or hyperbola), and there is no longer a closed path returning the
spacecraft to Earth. So now we can move away from the gravitational control of Earth (not
from gravity!) and proceed to explore our Solar System and beyond. However, after taking
such a step, there is a challenge of time, distance, and propulsion as we proceed farther and
farther to explore our Solar System, then nearby Galactic space, and finally our galaxy.
Exploring beyond our galaxy is technically beyond our current or projected capabilities. In
order to achieve travel beyond our galaxy, our current understanding of thrust, mass, inertia,
and time will have to be different (see Chaps. 8 and 9). Mass/inertia may be the most
challenging. An article by Gordon Kane in the July 2005 Scientific American entitled “The
Mysteries of Mass” explains our current understanding of what we call mass. From another
paper presented by Theodore Davis at the 40th Joint Propulsion Conference [Davis, 2004], we
have the following statement:

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E = mc2 is the expression of mass-energy equivalence and applies to all forms of energy. That includes the
energy of motion or kinetic energy. The faster an object is going relative to another object, the greater
the kinetic energy. According to Einstein mass and energy are equivalent, therefore the extra energy
associated with the object’s inertia manifests itself in the same way mass manifests itself ... As a result,
the kinetic energy adds to the object’s inertial component and adds resistance to any change in the
objects motion. In other words, both energy and mass have inertia.

Inertia is a resistance to change in speed or direction. As we approach light speed, the

inertia/mass approaches infinity. As the mass approaches infinity the thrust required to
maintain constant acceleration also approaches infinity. Thus, at this point we do not know
how to exceed the speed of light. If that remains the case, we are trapped within the environs
of our Solar System.
There is a second major issue. Human tolerance to a continuous acceleration for long
periods has yet to be quantified. Nominally that is considered about three times the surface
acceleration of gravity. At that rate of acceleration the time to reach a distant destination is
numerically on the same order as the distance in light years. So if a crewed spacecraft is to
return to Earth within the lifetime of its occupants, we are again limited to 20 light years of so.
That is within the distance to the seven or eight closest stars to our star, the Sun.
As much as the authors would hope to travel in Galactic space, it will require a break-
through in our understanding of mass, acceleration and propulsion. Until that time we have
much to explore and discover within the environs of our Solar System.
Coming down from Galactic space to intelligent life on Earth, the authors would like to
acknowledge the contributions of Elena and David Bruno, Catherine Czysz, Dr Babusci at the
INFN (Italian Nuclear Physics Institute), Dr Romanelli at the ENEA Fusion Laboratories, Mr
Simone, GS, H. David Froning, Gordon Hamilton, Dr Christopher P. Rahaim and Dr John
Mason, Praxis Subject Advisory Editor. Special thanks go to Clive Horwood of Praxis, for his
patience, constant encouragement, and prodding, without which writing this book would have
taken much longer.

St. Louis, USA Paul A. Czysz

East Hartford, Storrs, USA Claudio Bruno
Contents

1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 The Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Historical Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.3 Challenge of Flying to Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3.1 Vehicle-Integrated Rocket Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3.2 Vehicle-Integrated Airbreathing Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3.3 Choice of Propulsion System: A Multi-disciplinary Challenge . . . 3
1.4 Operational Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.5 Operational Space Distances, Speed, and Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.6 Implied Propulsion Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.7 Propulsion Concepts Available for Solar System Exploration . . . . . . . . . . 13
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2 Our Progress Appears to Be Impeded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.1 Meeting the Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2 Early Progress in Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3 Historical Analog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4 Evolution of Space Launchers from Ballistic Missiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.5 Conflicts Between Expendable Rockets and Reusable Airbreathers . . . . . . 29
2.6 Commercialization and Exploration Road Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.6.1 Commercial Near-Earth Launchers Enable the First Step. . . . . . . 34
2.6.2 On-Orbit Operations in Near-Earth Orbit Enable the Second
Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.6.3 Earth-Moon System Enables the Third Step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.6.4 Nuclear or High-Energy Space Propulsion Enables the Fourth
Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.6.5 Very High-Energy Space Propulsion Enables the Fifth Step . . . . 39
2.6.6 Light Speed-Plus Propulsion Enables the Sixth Step . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

3 Commercial Near-Earth Space Launcher: Understanding System

Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3.1 Missions and Geographical Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.2 Energy, Propellants, and Propulsion Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.3 Energy Requirements to Change Orbital Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.4 Operational Concepts Anticipated for Future Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.5 Configuration Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.6 Takeoff and Landing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.7 Transatmospheric Launcher Sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.7.1 Vehicle Design Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.7.2 Vehicle Sizing Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.7.3 Propulsion Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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3.7.4 Sizing Methodology and Software Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . 81

3.8 Available Solution Spaces: Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3.8.1 Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO) Solution Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3.8.2 Transatmospheric Space Launcher: Lessons Learned. . . . . . . . . . 109
3.9 Hypersonic Configurations: Geometric Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
3.9.1 Configuration Continuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
3.9.2 Configuration Geometry Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

4 Commercial Near-Earth Launcher: Propulsion Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

4.1 Propulsion System Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
4.2 Propulsion System Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
4.3 Airflow Energy Entering the Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
4.4 Internal Flow Energy Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
4.5 Spectrum of Airbreathing Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
4.6 Design Space Available—Interaction of Propulsion and
Materials/Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
4.7 Major Sequence of Propulsion Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
4.8 Rocket-Derived Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
4.9 Airbreathing Rocket Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
4.10 Thermally Integrated Combined-Cycle Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
4.11 Engine Thermal Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
4.12 Total System Thermal Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
4.13 Thermally Integrated Enriched Air Combined-Cycle Propulsion . . . . . . . . 152
4.14 Comparison of Continuous Operation Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
4.15 Conclusions with Respect to Continous Operation Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
4.16 Pulse Detonation Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
4.16.1 Engine Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
4.16.2 Engine Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
4.17 Conclusions with Respect to Pulse Detonation Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
4.18 Comparison of Continuous Operation and Pulsed Cycles. . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
4.19 Integrated Launcher Sizing with Different Propulsion Systems . . . . . . . . . 166
4.20 Structural Concept and Structural Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
4.21 Sizing Results for Continuous and Pulse Detonation Engines . . . . . . . . . . 169
4.22 Operational Configuration Concepts: SSTO and TSTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
4.23 Emerging Propulsion System Concepts in Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
4.23.1 MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) Energy Bypass System . . . . . . . 177
4.23.2 Electromagnetic Radiation Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
4.23.3 Variable Cycle Turboramjet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
4.23.4 Aero-Spike Nozzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
4.23.5 ORBITEC Vortex Rocket Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

5 Earth Orbit on-Orbit Operations in Near-Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

5.1 Energy Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
5.1.1 Getting to Low Earth Orbit: Energy and Propellant
Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
5.2 Launcher Propulsion System Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
5.2.1 Propellant Ratio to Deliver Propellant to LEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
5.2.2 Geostationary Orbit Satellite Size and Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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5.3 Maneuver Between LEO and GEO, Change in Altitude at Same

Orbital Inclination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
5.3.1 Energy Requirements for Altitude Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
5.3.2 Mass Ratio Required for Altitude Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
5.3.3 Propellant Delivery Ratio for Altitude Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
5.4 Changes in Orbital Inclination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
5.4.1 Energy Requirements for Orbital Inclination Change . . . . . . . . . 208
5.4.2 Mass Ratio Required for Orbital Inclination Change . . . . . . . . . . 210
5.4.3 Propellant Delivery Ratio for Orbital Inclination Change. . . . . . . 212
5.5 Representative Space Transfer Vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
5.6 Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
5.6.1 Missions Per Propellant Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
5.6.2 Orbital Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
5.6.3 Orbital Constellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
5.6.4 Docking with Space Facilities and the ISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
5.6.5 Emergency Rescue Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
5.7 Observations and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

6 Earth–Moon System: Establishing a Solar System Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

6.1 Earth–Moon Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
6.2 Requirements to Travel to the Moon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
6.2.1 Sustained Operation Lunar Trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
6.2.2 Launching from the Moon Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
6.3 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
6.3.1 USSR Exploration History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
6.3.2 USA Exploration History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
6.3.3 India Exploration History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
6.3.4 Japan Exploration History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
6.3.5 China Exploration History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
6.4 Natural Versus Artificial Orbital Station Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
6.4.1 Prior Orbital Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
6.4.2 Artificial Orbital Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
6.4.3 Natural Orbital Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
6.5 Moon Base Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
6.5.1 Martian Analog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
6.5.2 Lunar Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
6.5.3 Manufacturing and Production Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

7 Exploration of Our Solar System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

7.1 Review of Our Solar System Distances, Speeds, and Propulsion
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
7.2 Alternative Energy Sources: Nuclear Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
7.3 Limits of Chemical Propulsion and Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
7.3.1 Energy Sources and Specific Impulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
7.3.2 The Need for Nuclear Space Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
7.4 Nuclear Propulsion Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
7.5 Nuclear Propulsion: A Historical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
7.6 Nuclear Propulsion: Current Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
7.7 Fundamentals of Nuclear Fission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
7.8 Solid-Core NTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
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7.9 Particle Bed Reactor Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

7.10 Cermet Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
7.11 MITEE NTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
7.12 Gas-Core NTR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
7.13 Rubbia’s Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
7.14 Considerations About NTR Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
7.15 Hybrid Nuclear Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
7.16 Nuclear-Electric Propulsion (NEP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
7.17 Nuclear Arcjet Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
7.18 Nuclear-Electric Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
7.19 Electrostatic Ion Thrusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
7.20 MPD/MHD Thrusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
7.21 Hybrid NTR/NER Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
7.22 Inductively Heated NTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
7.22.1 Nuclear-Thermal-Electric Rocket (NTER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
7.23 VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magneto-Plasma-Dynamic Rocket). . . 294
7.24 Propulsion Strategies Compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
7.25 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

8 Stellar and Interstellar Precursor Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
8.1.1 Quasi-Interstellar Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
8.1.2 Time and Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
8.2 Propulsion for Quasi-Interstellar and Stellar Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
8.2.1 Fusion Requirements and Impact on Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
8.3 Traveling at Relativistic Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
8.4 Power for Quasi-Interstellar and Stellar Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
8.5 Fusion Propulsion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
8.5.1 Mission Length Enabled by Fusion and Annihilation
Propulsion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
8.6 Fusion Fuels and Their Kinetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
8.7 Fusion Propulsion Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
8.7.1 Thermal Versus Electric Fusion Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
8.8 Fusion Propulsion Reactor Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
8.8.1 Confinement Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
8.9 Magnetic Confinement Reactors (MCR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
8.10 Mirror Magnetic Confinement Rockets (Mirror MCR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
8.10.1 Tokamak MCF Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
8.10.2 Comparing Thermal and Electric MCF Rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
8.11 Inertial Confinement Fusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
8.11.1 Fusion Ignition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
8.12 Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
8.13 MCF and ICF Fusion: A Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
8.14 Magnetic-Inertial Confinement (MIC) Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
8.15 Fusion Propulsion Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
8.16 Antimatter Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
8.17 Impulsive Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
8.18 Photonic Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
8.19 Conclusions: Can We Reach the Stars? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
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9 View to the Future and Exploration of Our Galaxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
9.2 Issues in Developing Near- and Far-Galactic Space Exploration . . . . . . . . 364
9.3 Black Holes and Galactic Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
9.4 Breakthrough Physics and Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
9.5 Superluminal Speed: Is It Required? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
9.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Appendix A: Radiation—Risks, Dose Assessment, and Shielding . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Appendix B: Assessment of Open Magnetic Fusion for Space Propulsion . . . . . . 403
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
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Abbreviations
AB Airbreather (engine cycle), All-Body
AC Alternating Current
ACES Air Collection and Enrichment System (engine cycle)
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AEDC Arnold Engineering Development Complex
AERE Atomic Energy Research Establishment
AeroMech conceptual design stability & control (software)
AFB Air Force Base
AFFDL Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory
AFRL Air Force Rocket Laboratory
AGARD Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AI Aerospace Institute
AIP American Institute of Physics
ALES Air Liquefaction and Enrichment System
ALHL Air Launch Horizontal Landing
ALSS Apollo Logistics Support Systems
AMTEC Alkali Metal Thermal-to-Electric Conversion
ANSER Analytic Services Inc
AoA Angle-of-Attack
APL Applied Physics Laboratory
ARC Aerodynamics Research Center (at UTA), All Regeneratively Cooled (rocket)
ARCC Air-breathing Rocket Combined Cycle
ARM Asteroid Redirect Mission
ASEE American Society for Engineering Education
ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency)
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASP Aerospace Plane
ASPL Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
ASSET Aerothermodynamic Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests (USA)
ATREX Air Turbo Ramjet Engine with eXpander cycle
ATV Automated Transfer Vehicle
AU Astronomical Unit
AVD Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD Laboratory at UTA MAE,
AVD Services LLC)
AVDS Aerospace Vehicle Design Synthesis (software)
AW&ST Aviation Week and Space Technology
BB Blended Body

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BEPR Breakthrough Energy Physics Research

BG Boost-Glide
BGRV Ballistic Glide Reentry Vehicle
BNTEP Bimodal Nuclear-Thermal Electric Propulsion
BOL Beginning-Of-Life
BOR Bespilotniye Orbitalniye Raketoplan (USSR unpiloted orbital rocketplane)
C/C Carbon/Carbon (composites)
CBFR Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor
C Compressor, Chemical
CECE Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine
CEM Crew Exploration Module
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CERMET CERamics-METal
CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for
Nuclear Research)
CEV Crew Exploration Vehicle
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFR Compact Fusion Reactor
CG Center of Gravity
CGS Centimeter-Gram-Second system of units (= cgs)
CIAM Central Institute of Aviation Motors
CLV Crew Launcher Vehicle
CO2 Carbon dioxide
COIL Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser
CONEU Contiguous Continental Europe
CONUS Continental United States
COPS Comparative Operational Propulsion Systems
CRV Crew Return Vehicle
CSP Cryo-Solid Propulsion
CSS Coaxial Slow Source
CT Computerized Tomography
CTR Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions
CTX Compact Torus Experiment
CW Continuous Wave
CXO Corporate eXecutive Officer
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DB Data-Base
DC Deeply Cooled, Direct Current
D Deuterium
DFP Diluted Fusion Products (rocket)
DGLR Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt
DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
DoD Department of Defence
DOE Department of Energy
DPF Dense Plasma Focus
DRA Design Reference Architecture
DR Down Range
DRM Design Reference Mission
DS Decision-Support
DSN Deep Space Network (NASA)
EAR Excess Absolute Risk
ECH Electron Cyclotron Heating
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ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance

EM Electromagnetic
ENEA Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico
sostenibile (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and
Sustainable Economic Development)
EP Electric Propulsion
ERR Excess Relative Risk
ERV Earth Return Vehicle
ESA European Space Agency
ESH Expendable Spacecraft Hardware
ESI Electrostatic Ion Thruster
ET External Tank, Electric Thruster, Electrothermal
ETW Engine Thrust-to-Weight ratio
EU European Union
EVA Extravehicular Activity (as in EVA suit)
EX Exchanger
FDL Flight Dynamics Laboratory (USAF)
FEL Free Electron Laser
FF Fission Fragments
FFRE Fission Fragment Rocket Engine (NASA)
F Fuel
FI Fast Ignition
FIREX FIeld-Reversed ion ring EXperiment
FMPT First Materials Processing Test (program, Japan)
FOCAL Fast Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens
FRC Field-Reversed Configuration
FRM Field-Reversed Mirror
FRX Field-Reversed configuration plasma injector for magnetized target Experiment
FTL Faster Than Light
GALCIT Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology
GALEX galaxy Evolution Explorer (NASA/JPL)
GCR Galactic Cosmic Radiation, Galactic Cosmic Rays, Gas Core Reactor
GDL Gas Dynamics Laboratory
GDM GasDynamic Mirror
GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit
GIE Gridded Ion Engine
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GNIPGS State Hypersonic Systems Research Institute (Russia)
GRASP Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion
GRC Glenn Research Center (NASA)
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
GSO Geosynchronous Orbit
GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit
GW Gross Weight, Giga-Watt
H2 Chemical formula for hydrogen gas
HALE High-Altitude Long-Endurance
HC Hypersonic Convergence
HED High-Energy Density
HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit
HL Horizontal Landing
HMX High Melting eXplosive (octogen)
HOTOL Horizontal Take-Off and Landing
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HRLV Highly Reusable Launch Vehicle

HSCT High-Speed Civil Transport
HTHL Horizontal-Takeoff-Horizontal Landing (= HTOL)
HTOL Horizontal-Takeoff-Horizontal Landing
HTPB Hydroxyl-Terminated PolyButadiene
HTSC High-Temperature SuperConducting
HyFAC Hypersonic Research Facilities Study (NASA-sponsored study)
IAC International Astronautical Federation Congress, International Astronautical
Conference
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IAF International Astronautics Federation
IAU International Astronomical Union
ICAS International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICES International Conference on Environmental Systems
ICF Inertial Confinement Fusion
ICR Inertial Confinement fusion Reactors
ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection
ICRU International Commission on Radiation Unit
IEC Electrostatic-Inertial Confinement
IEEEAC Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Aerospace Conference
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGY International Geophysical Year
IMLEO Initial Mass in LEO
INEL Idaho National Engineering Laboratories
INL Idaho National Laboratories
IOC Initial Operational Capability, In-Space Operations Corporation
IQ Intelligence Quotient
IRBM Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile
IR Infrared Radiation
ISABE International Symposium on Air-breathing Engines
ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)
ISECG International Space Exploration Coordination Group
ISS International Space Station
ISTC International Science and Technology Center
ISTS International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
JANNAF Joint Army Navy NASA Air Force
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JBIS Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
JHU Johns Hopkins University
JIMO Jupiter’s Icy Moons Orbiter
JP Jet Propellant
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC Johnson Space Center (NASA)
JUICE JUpiter ICy moons Explorer
JWST James Webb Space Telescope
K shell Electron shell labeling (principal energy level)
KB Knowledge-Base
KBO Kuiper Belt Objects
Notation xxiii

KLIN Meaning wedge in Russian, thermally integrated deeply cooled turbojet

and rocket engine
KREEP K = potassium, REE = rare earth elements, and P = phosphorus
KSC NASA Kennedy Space Center
L shell Electron shell labeling (principal energy level)
LACE Liquid Air Cycle Engine
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LANTR LOX-Augmented NTR
LASL Los Alamos Science Laboratories
LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility
LDX Levitated Dipole eXperiment
LEA Liquid-Enriched Air
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LESA Lunar Exploration System for Apollo
LH2 Liquid Hydrogen
LHC Large Hadron Collider
LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
LLO Low Lunar Orbit
LND Landing
LOCA Loss Of Coolant Accident
LOX Liquid Oxygen
LRE Liquid Rocket Engine
LR Lateral Range
LSS Life Span Study
LTSC Low-Temperature SuperConductors
LUNOX Lunar-derived LOX
ly Light-years
M shell Electron shell labeling (principal energy level)
MagLev Magnetic Levitation linear induction accelerator
MagLift Magnetic Lifter
MAI Moscow Aircraft Institute
MAKS Multi-purpose Aerospace System
MAR Mass Annihilation Rocket
MAV Mars Ascent Vehicle
MBB Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
McAIR McDonnell Aircraft Company
MCF Magnetic Confinement Fusion
MC Magnetic Confinement
MCR Magnetic Confinement Reactors, Magnetic Confinement Rocket
MDA Multi-Disciplinary Analysis
MDC McDonnell Douglas Corporation
MD Module
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MFE Magnetic Fusion Energy
MFPS Mirror Fusion Propulsion System
MFTF Mirror Fusion Test Facility
MGS Manned Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Servicing
MHD Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic
MICF Magnetic-Inertial Confinement Fusion
MIC Magnetic-Inertial Confinement
MIF Magnetic-Inertial Fusion
xxiv Notation

MIR Lit. peace (space station run by the Soviet Union and later by Russia)
MITEE Miniature Reactor Engine
MMC Metal Matrix Composites
MMH/NTO Monomethylhydrazine + Nitrogen Tetroxide (hypergolic propellants)
MMO Mini-MagOrion (Miniature Magnetic Orion)
MMSEV Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle
MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory
MP2 Multi-Purpose Plasma
MPD Magneto-Plasma-Dynamic (= MHD thruster)
MR Mass Ratio
MRX Magnetic Reconnection Experiment
MSL Mars Science Laboratory
MST Madison Symmetric Torus
MSTO Multi-Stage-To-Orbit
MTBM Mean Time Between Maintenance
MTF Magnetized Target Fusion
MTV Mars Transfer Vehicle
NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NAL National Aerospace Laboratory (Japan)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA National Space Development Agency (Japan)
NASP National Aero-Space Plane
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBI Neutral Beam Injection
NEA Near-Earth Asteroid
NEO Near-Earth Objects
NEP Nuclear-Electric Propulsion
NERVA Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application
NEXIS Nuclear-Electric Xenon Ion System
NextSTEP Next Space Technology Exploration Partnership
NFL National Football League
NFRC Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition
NH New Horizons
NIA National Institute of Aerospace
NIAC NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (program)
NIF National Ignition Facility
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
n Neutron
NP Nuclear Propulsion
NPR Nuclear Propulsion Research
NRC National Research Council
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NRX Nuclear Rocket Experimental
NSI Nuclear Systems Initiative
NTER Nuclear-Thermal Electric Rocket
NTO Nitrogen Tetroxide
NTP Nuclear-Thermal Propulsion
NTR Nuclear-Thermal Rocket
NTREES Nuclear-Thermal Rocket Element Environmental Simulator
NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
N2O4 Dinitrogen Tetroxide
O2 Oxygen
Notation xxv

OCO Orbiting Carbon Observatory, Oort Cloud Object

OD Outer Diameter
ODWE Oblique Detonation Wave Engine
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OKB Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buro (Russian, Experimental Design Bureau)
OMC Open Magnetic Confinement
OMF Open Magnetic Field
OMV Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
ONERA Office National d'Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales
OOPC Other OPerational Costs
O Oxidizer
OPA Oxygen-Poor Air
Ops Operations
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy (White House)
OTV Orbital Transfer Vehicle
OWE Operating Weight Empty
OWEv Operating Weight Empty (volume budget)
OWEw Operating Weight Empty (weight budget)
PAMELA Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics
PBR Particle Bed Reactor
PDE Pulse Detonation Engine
PDRE Pulse Detonation Rocket Engine
PDR Pulse Detonation Rocket
PEMT Purely Electro-Magnetic Thruster
PF Poloidal Field
PP Parametric Process
p Proton
PY Per Year
QED Quiet Energy Discharge
QI Quasi-Interstellar (= QIS)
QSH Quasi-Single-Helicity
R&D Research and Development
RAD Radiation Assessment Detector
RAE Royal Aircraft Establishment
RAM Ramjet
RASC Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts
RAS Russian Academy of Sciences
RBCC Rocket-Based Combined-Cycle
RC Right Circular (RC cone)
RDE Rotating Detonation Engine
RDT&E Research, Development, Technology, and Engineering
RFC Reverse Field Configuration
RFI Request For Information
RF Radio Frequency
RFP Reversed Field Pinch
RIAME Research Institute of Applied Mechanics and Electrodynamics
RIT Radio Frequency Ion Technology
Rkt Rocket
RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle
RMF Rotating Magnetic Field
RSH Reentry Spacecraft Hardware
RS Rocket System (propulsion cycle, as in Ejector RS)
xxvi Notation

RSR Roll Speed Ratio, Rapid Solidification Rate

RSS Reentry Spacecraft Spares
RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
SABRE Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers
SAFE Subsurface Active Filtering of Exhaust
SAFFIRE Self-sustained, Advanced-Fueled FIeld REversed mirror reactor
SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
SBW Switch-Blade Wing (= SWB)
SCORE Stoichiometric COmbustion Rocket Engine
SCRAM Scramjet
SCRJ Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (also scramjet)
SCR Solid Core Reactor
SC Superconductor
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SEI Space Exploration Initiative
SEP Solar-Energy Propulsion
SERJ Supercharged Ejector Ram Jet
SL Sea Level
SLS Space Launch System, Sea-Level Static
SNAP System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power
SNC Sierra Nevada Corporation
SNRE Small Nuclear Reactor Engine
SNTP Space Nuclear-Thermal Propulsion
SOAR Space Orbiting Advanced fusion power Reactor
SOX Solid-Oxygen
SOZ Solid-Ozone
SPACE Space Propulsion Annular Compact Engine
SPHEX SPHeromak EXperiment
SRM Solid Rocket Motor (booster)
SR Solar Radiation
SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine
SSO Sun-Synchronous Orbit
SSPX Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment
SS Steady State
SSTC Single-Stage To Cruise
SSTO Single-Stage To Orbit
SST Supersonic Transport
SSX Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment
STAIF Space Technology and Applications International Forum
STAR Spaceplane Technology and Research
STP Standard Temperature and Pressure
STS Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle)
T III C Martin Titan III C
TAD Technology Availability Dates
TARC Transmutation by Adiabatic Resonance Crossing
TAV Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle
TCS Training Course Series
TD Thoria-Dispersed
TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc
TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Notation xxvii

TF Toroidal Field
TLC Telecommunications
TMI Three Mile Island
TM Tandem Mirror
TMX Tandem Mirror Experiment
TNO Trans-Neptunian Objects
TOGW Takeoff Gross Weight
Tokamak To (roidal) ka (chamber) mak (machine)
TO Takeoff
TPS Thermal Protection System
TRISO Tristructural Isotropic (fuel)
TRITON TRImodal, Thrust Optimized, Nuclear Propulsion and Power System
for Advanced Space Missions
TRL Technology Readiness Level
TsAGI Russian Central Aerodynamics Institute
TsIAM Central Institute of Aviation Motor Development or CIAM
TsNIIMash Central Research Institute of Machine Building
TSTO Two-Stage-To-Orbit
T Turbine, Tritium
TUG Tugboat
TWA Trans World Airlines
TWTO Thrust-to-Weight ratio at Take Off
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UDMH Unsymmetrical Diethyl-Hydrazine
UFO Unidentified Flying Object
UHTC Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramics
ULA United Launch Alliance
UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
UPS United Parcel Service
USAF United States Air Force
USA United States of America
USN United States Navy
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union)
US United States (America)
UTA University of Texas at Arlington
UW The University of Washington
VASIMR VAriable Specific Impulse Magneto-plasma-dynamic Rocket
VATES Virtual Autonomous Test and Evaluation Simulator (software)
VCCW Vortex Combustion Cold-Wall (thrust chamber)
VCTR Variable Cycle Turbo Ramjet
VDK Jean Vandenkerckhove
VHRE Vortex Hybrid Rocket Engine
VIRTIS Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer
VISTA Vehicle for Interplanetary Space Transport Applications
VKI Von Kármán Institute
VPK Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation
VTHL Vertical-Takeoff-Horizontal Landing (= VTOHL)
VTOHL Vertical-Takeoff-Horizontal Landing
VTOL Vertical Takeoff and Landing
VT Total volume, vertical takeoff
VTVL Vertical-Takeoff-Vertical Landing
WB Wing-Body
xxviii Notation

WHO World Health Organization

WR Weight Ratio
Wt Weight
WU Whittle Unit
W Work
X Experimental
ZFW Zero-Fuel Weight
ZPE Zero-Point Energy

Symbols
a Cross-sectional semi-axis, semi-major axis of the transfer ellipse
(Kepler’s elliptical orbit), constant acceleration, plasma radius
in the solenoid
a0 Constant acceleration
anormal Acceleration perpendicular to flight path necessary to maintain a curved
path
asc Spacecraft acceleration
ax Axial acceleration
A Propellant molecule, inlet area, atomic mass number, cross section
of the reactor
~
A Vector potential
A; B Constants for slender aircraft (state-of-the-art)
Aa Mass number (nucleus emits an alpha particle)
Aþ Ion
A ; Asonicthroat Rocket nozzle throat area
A0 Airbreathing engine cowl stream tube area (inlet)
A1 Airbreathing engine module cowl area (inlet)
A2 Airbreathing engine module minimum area (inlet)
AC Airbreathing engine geometric air capture area (inlet)
Abase Base cross-sectional surface area
Ac Airbreather cowl area
AC Inlet air capture area
Acowl Airbreather cowl area
Amax Maximum cross-sectional surface area
Az Launch azimuth from true north
b Cross-sectional semi-axis
~
b Local unit vector along ~ B
b=a Vehicle normal cross-sectional geometry description (height and width)


pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
B Buildup factor, B 
~ B
 ~ B ~ B ¼ BðxÞ  ~
B, ~ b, poloidal magnetic field
in the (r-z) plane
~
B Magnetic induction or magnetic field, magnetic field strength
~
Bmin ; ~
Bmax Minimum value in the middle and a maximum value at the coil location
B0 Mean magnetic field within the bottle
~
B0 Magnetic field necessary to stop pellet debris at a safe distance
from the wall, magnetic field value in the solenoid
Bab Magnetic field value in the absorber
Be Magnetic field outside the separatrix (determined by the poloidal coil
current)
Notation xxix

~
Bext External imposed magnetic induction or magnetic field, magnetic
field strength
Bm Magnetic-field intensity at the midplane
Bmax Peak magnetic field within the bottle, magnetic field value in the mirror
~
Bp Tokamak magnetic field
~
B0p Vacuum magnetic field
Bh Toroidal magnetic field along h
c Speed of light
c Characteristic velocity
cs Plasma sound speed
C Curve fit coefficient
C Effective exhaust velocity
C0 Collimation or coupling factor < 1 empirically accounting for the fraction
of the impulse transmitted to the thrust plate by the debris
C3 Characteristic energy (measure of the excess specific energy over that
required to just barely escape from a massive body)
CD Drag coefficient (aircraft)
CD 0 Drag coefficient (aircraft) for zero angle-of-attack (zero-lift drag coefficient)
CL Lift coefficient (aircraft)
CLL=D max Lift coefficient (aircraft) at maximum aerodynamic efficiency
Cp Heat capacity at constant pressure
Csys Constant system weight
CT Coupling coefficient
Cv Heat capacity at constant volume
C=K Kinetic energy losses chemical combustion can overcome
CO=F Onboard (carried) oxygen-to-fuel ratio
CR Inlet geometry contraction ratio (Acapture/Athroat)
d Diameter of the receiving mirror on the spacecraft, distance
dacc Distance travelled at constant acceleration
dC Number of neutrons captured by a nucleus
D Aerodynamic drag (flight vehicle), cylinder diameter, diameter
of the beaming mirror, absorbed dose, radiation dose
DBrems Bremsstrahlung radiation
Drecom Radiation heat transfer due to recombination of electrons and ions
DR Down range
e Eccentricity, factor
e Electron
E Energy, energy to reach escape speed, internal energy, effective dose
~
E Electric field, radial electrostatic field
DE Energy loss
EB Pellet energy release
Ef Fusion heat release
Efus Energy released in a fusion reaction
Efus;ij Energy released in the reaction
Ei Extraction potential, ion energy
Ein Injection energy
Ek Kinetic energy, kinetic energy of the fission fragments
Emax Maximum energy
Ep Potential energy
ETW Engine thrust-to-weight ratio, sea-level static (SLS)
E=m Energy density
f Factor
xxx Notation

~f Lorentz force
fb Measure of the fuel burn fraction
fcrw Crew member specific weight
fD Fraction for direct conversion
fij Fraction of the fusion energy transferred to the plasma
fn Fraction of fusion energy associated with neutrons
fs Stoichiometric condition (stoichiometric fuel/air ratio)
fsys Variable system weight coefficient
fT Fraction used directly for thrust
ff Fuel fraction (Wfuel / WTOGW)
fuel=air Fuel-to-air ratio
F D. Taylor correlation parameter, thrust, efficiency
~
F Lorentz force
~
Fg Gravitational force
g Acceleration due to gravity
g0 Gravitational acceleration at the surface of Earth
G Universal gravitational constant
GW=Sp Gross weight planform loading
h Potential energy, altitude, altitude above surface, Planck constant
ha ; hp Geometry parameters for the example elliptical transfer orbit
h0 Static enthalpy, freestream static enthalpy
hS Specific energy (energy/mass)
ht Total energy (stagnation energy)
H Magnetic field intensity, equivalent dose
i Orbital inclination, ionic current
i=F Current absorbed per unit thrust (electric thruster)
I Plasma current, radiation intensity, neutron flux
~I Plasma current
Idsp Density specific impulse
Ip Propulsion index, propulsion-propellant index
Ipp Propulsion-propellant index
Iref Reference index
Isp Specific impulse, propulsion efficiency
Ispe Effective specific impulse
Ispf Fuel specific impulse
Istr Structural index
Isp  qppl Density impulse
Isp =Vc “Normalized” specific impulse
ICI Industry capability index (= ITC)
~j Current flux or current density (Lorentz force)
J Potential energy per unit mass, fission heat release per unit propellant mass,
energy density, potential energy per unit mass, microscopic kinetic energy
per unit mass of the medium where potential energy has been released, heat
of combustion, energy yield
~
J Current density vector
JII Current density component parallel to the equilibrium field
k Boltzmann constant, boundary values
k0 Constant of order unity that depends on the details of the trajectory
kB Boltzmann constant
kcrw Crew member volume
keff Effective neutron multiplication factor
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political significance, so as to denote nothing whatever
besides this beneficent Christian action upon the people. For
natural morality and the precepts of the Gospel, for the very
reason that they transcend the chances of human existence,
must necessarily be independent of any particular form of
civil government and adapt themselves to all, so long as there
is nothing to conflict with virtue and right. They are,
therefore, and remain in themselves, absolutely external to
all conflict of parties and vicissitudes of occurrence, so
that, under whatever kind of government, people may and ought
to abide by these precepts, which bid them love God above all
and their neighbors as themselves. This has ever been the
morality of the Church: by it Roman Pontiffs have constantly
dealt with states whatever might be their executive
government. And this being so, the mind and action of
Catholics, when devoted to promoting the good of the lower
orders, cannot by any possibility aim at embracing and
introducing any one form of government in preference to
another.

"Just in the same way must Christian Democracy repudiate the

other ground of offense, which arises from paying so much
regard to the interests of the lower classes as to seem to
pass over the higher, who are nevertheless of equal importance
to the preservation and development of the State. The
Christian law of charity, which we have just mentioned,
forbids this. It is large enough to embrace all ranks as the
aim and the task of those who would have the common people in
a Christian spirit on the one hand suitably relieved, and, on
the other, preserved against the contagion of socialism. …

"We have recalled these various topics on which we have before

this found occasion to dilate according to our ability, and we
trust that all dispute over the name of Christian Democracy
may now be laid aside, as well as any suspicion of dangerous
signification attaching to it. This trust we rightly cherish.
For making exception of the ideas of certain persons regarding
the force and virtue of this kind of Christian Democracy,
ideas which are not free from extravagance or error, surely
there will be no single person to find fault with an endeavor,
conformably to the law of nature and of God, to do merely
this, to make the lives of laborers and artisans more
tolerable, and gradually to give them the opportunity of
self-culture, so that at home and in the world they may freely
fulfil the obligations of virtue and religion, may feel
themselves to be men, and not mere animals, Christian men, not
pagans, and so strive with more felicity and earnestness to
attain that 'one thing needful,' that final good, for which we
came into the world. This is belonging to one and the same
family, the offspring of the same all-beneficent Father,
redeemed by one Saviour and called to the same eternal
inheritance. …

"God forbid that under the name of Christian democracy should

lie the surreptitious aim of throwing off all obedience and
turning away from those in lawful authority. The law of
nature, no less than that of Christ, enjoins respect for all
such as in their several degree hold office in the State, and
further enjoins obedience to their lawful commands. This is
the only attitude worthy of a man and a Christian, and ought
to be taken up heartily and as a matter of duty, 'for
conscience's sake,' as the Apostle himself has admonished,
when he ordained: 'Let every soul be subject to the highest
powers.' …

"We spoke just now advisedly of virtue and religion. For it is

the opinion of some, which is caught up by the masses, that
the social question, as they call it, is 'economical' merely.
The precise opposite is the truth—that it is first of all
moral and religious, and for that reason its solution is to be
expected mainly from the moral law and the pronouncements of
religion. … Without the instincts which Christian wisdom
implants and keeps alive, without providence, self-control,
thrift, endurance and other natural qualities, you may try
 your hardest, but prosperity you cannot provide. That is the
reason why we have never encouraged Catholics to form
associations for the assistance of the poor, or introduce
other schemes of the kind, without at the same time warning
them that such things must not be attempted without the
sanction of religion, without its inclusion and aid. … It is a
laudable charity not merely to relieve the temporary needs of
the poor, but to have an organized system of relief; this will
be a more real and reliable assistance. It must be considered
still more laudable to desire to instill into the minds of the
mechanic and of the laborer notions of thrift and prudence, so
that they may at least in part make provision for their
declining years. It is an aim which not only relieves the cost
of the wealthy, but it is a moral step for the poor
themselves; it encourages them to approve their position,
while it keeps them away from temptations, checks
self-indulgence and leads them on to virtuous behavior. …

"Finally, we again enjoin with greater insistence that

whatever schemes people take up in the popular cause, whether
individually or in association, they should remember that they
must be entirely submissive to episcopal authority. Do not let
them be beguiled by an excessive ardor for charitable
enterprise, which, if it induces any relaxation of due
obedience, is itself false, unproductive of solid benefit and
displeasing to God. Those who please God are those who are
ready to give up their own ideas and listen to the bidding of
the rulers of the Church, absolutely as to His own."

Catholic Union and Times,

February 21, 1901.

{351}

PARIS: A. D. 1897.
Burning of the Charity Bazaar.
 An awful destruction of life was caused on the 4th of May by
fire breaking out in a charity bazaar, held in the Rue Jean
Goujon, at Paris. Temporary structures had been erected, of
wood and other combustible materials, to represent a street of
Old Paris shops, and the flames ran through them like
wildfire. The place was thronged with people, mostly of the
aristocratic class and more than 200 are said to have
perished.

PARIS: A. D. 1900 (April-November).

Exposition.

See (in this volume)

FRANCE: A. D. 1900 (APRIL-NOVEMBER).

PARIS: A. D. 1900 (September).

Gigantic banquet to the Mayors of France.

See (in this volume)

FRANCE: A. D. 1900 (SEPTEMBER).

PARIS, Treaty of (1898), between the United States and Spain.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1898 (JULY-DECEMBER).

PARKHURST, Reverend Dr. Charles:

His attack on the Tammany administration of New York City.

See (in this volume)

NEW YORK CITY: A. D. 1894-1895.

PARLIAMENT, The British:

Ceremonious opening by King Edward VII.

See (in this volume)

 ENGLAND: A. D. 1901 (FEBRUARY).

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, Austrian.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1895-1896.

----------PARTIES AND FACTIONS, POLITICAL

AND POLITICO-RELIGIOUS: Start--------

PARTIES:
Afrikander Bund, or Bondsmen.

See (in this volume)

SOUTH AFRICA (CAPE COLONY):
A. D. 1881-1888; 1898; 1898(MARCH-OCTOBER);
and 1900 (DECEMBER).

PARTIES:
Agrarian Protectionists, German.

See (in this volume)

GERMANY: A. D. 1895-1898.

PARTIES:
Anti-Imperialists.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
Anti-Semites.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1895-1896, and after;
FRANCE: A. D. 1897-1899, and after;
GERMANY: A. D. 1898 (JUNE).
PARTIES:
Blancos, or Whites.

See (in this volume)

URUGUAY: A. D. 1896-1899.

PARTIES:
The Bond.

See above,
AFRIKANDER BUND.

PARTIES:
Centre (Catholic, of Germany).

See (in this volume)

GERMANY: A. D.1898 (JUNE).

PARTIES:
Christian Social party.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Clerical party, Austria.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Colorados, or Reds.

See (in this volume)

URUGUAY: A. D. 1896-1899.
PARTIES:
Deutsch Fortschrittliche.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
"Fanatics."

See (in this volume)

BRAZIL: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
"Free Silver" Democracy.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER)
and 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
Fuyu-to (Liberals).

See (in this volume)

JAPAN: A. D. 1890-1898.

PARTIES:
German Democrats.

See (in this volume)

GERMANY: A. D. 1898 (JUNE).

PARTIES:
German Liberal party, Austria.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.
PARTIES:
German People's party.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Gold Democrats.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
Hintchak, The.

See (in this volume)

TURKEY: A. D. 1895.

PARTIES:
Historic Christian party.

See (in this volume)

NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Kai-shin-to (Progressives).

See (in this volume)

JAPAN: A. D. 1890-1898.

PARTIES:
Kensei-to (Constitutional party).

See (in this volume)

JAPAN: A. D. 1898-1899.
PARTIES:
Labor party, French (Parti Ouvrier).

See (in this volume)

FRANCE: A. D. 1896 (APRIL-MAY).

PARTIES:
Liberal Democrats (German).

See (in this volume)

GERMANY: A. D. 1898 (JUNE).

PARTIES:
Liberal Unionists (German).

See (in this volume)

GERMANY: A. D. 1898 (JUNE).

PARTIES:
Lincoln party.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER), SILVER REPUBLICAN.

PARTIES:
Little England party.

See (in this volume)

LITTLE ENGLAND PARTY.

PARTIES:
Middle-of-the-Road Populists.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
 A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER);
and 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
National Democratic party.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
National Liberals (German).

See (in this volume)

GERMANY: A. D. 1898 (JUNE).

PARTIES:
National party, 1896 and 1900.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER);
and 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
National Silver party.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
New Radical party.

See (in this volume)

ENGLAND: A. D. 1896 (MAY).
PARTIES:
Old Czechs.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Pan-Germanic Union.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1901.

PARTIES:
Patriotic League.

See (in this volume)

FRANCE: A. D. 1898 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
Polish Club.

See (in this volume)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Progressives (Kaishin-to).

See (in this volume)

JAPAN: A. D. 1890-1898.

PARTIES:
Progressives (Cape).

See (in this volume)

SOUTH AFRICA (CAPE COLONY):
A. D. 1898; and 1898 (MARCH-OCTOBER).
PARTIES:
Protestant Anti-Revolutionists.

See (in this volume)

NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Rikken Seiyu-kai
Association of Friends of the Constitution.

See (in this volume)

JAPAN: A. D. 1900 (AUGUST-OCTOBER).

PARTIES:
Siah Chai, The.

See (in this volume)

CHINA: A. D. 1895 (AUGUST).

PARTIES:
Silver Republicans.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER);
and 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
Socialist parties.

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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897;
FRANCE: A. D. 1896 (APRIL-MAY);
GERMANY: A. D. 1894-1895, and 1898 (JUNE);
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER),
and 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).
PARTIES:
"Sound Money" Democrats.

See (in this volume)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1896 (JUNE-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
United Christian party.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1900 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

PARTIES:
United Irish League.

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IRELAND: A. D. 1900-1901.

PARTIES:
"Vegetarians."

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CHINA: A. D. 1895 (AUGUST).

PARTIES:
Verfassungstreue Grossgrundbesitz.

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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Volkspartei.

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 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PARTIES:
Young Czechs.

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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1897.

PATRIARCHATE: Re-established at Alexandria.

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PAPACY: A. D. 1896 (MARCH).

PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.

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FRANCE: A. D. 1898 (MAY-NOVEMBER).

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PAUNCEFOTE, Sir Julian:

British commissioner to the Peace Conference at The Hague.

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PEACE CONFERENCE.

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PEACE CONFERENCE:

On the 24th of August, 1898, without previous heralding or

intimation, Count Mouravieff, the Russian Minister for Foreign
Affairs, placed copies of the following momentous proposal
from the Tsar in the hands of all the foreign representatives
attending his weekly reception at St. Petersburg:
"The maintenance of universal peace and a possible reduction
of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations
represent, in the present condition of affairs all over the
world, the ideal towards which the efforts of all Governments
should be directed. This view fully corresponds with the
humane and magnanimous intentions of His Majesty the Emperor,
my august Master. Being convinced that this high aim agrees
with the most essential interests and legitimate aspirations
of all the Powers, the Imperial Government considers the
present moment a very favourable one for seeking, through
international discussion, the most effective means of assuring
to all peoples the blessings of real and lasting peace, and
above all of limiting the progressive development of existing
armaments. During the last twenty years aspirations towards
general pacification have particularly asserted themselves in
the consciences of civilized nations. The preservation of
peace has been made the aim of international policy; for the
sake of peace the Great Powers have formed powerful alliances,
and for the purpose of establishing a better guarantee of peace
they have developed their military forces in an unprecedented
degree, and continue to develop them without hesitating at any
sacrifice. All these efforts, however, have not yet led to the
beneficent results of the desired pacification. The ever
increasing financial burdens strike at the root of public
prosperity. The physical and intellectual forces of the
people, labour and capital, are diverted for the greater part
from their natural application and wasted unproductively.
Hundreds of millions are spent in acquiring terrible engines
of destruction which are regarded to-day as the latest
inventions of science, but are destined to-morrow to be
rendered obsolete by some new discovery. National culture,
economical progress, and the production of wealth are either
paralysed or developed in a wrong direction. Therefore, the
more the armaments of each Power increase, the less they
answer to the objects aimed at by the Governments. Economic
disturbances are caused in great measure by this system of
excessive armaments, and the constant danger involved in this
accumulation of war material renders the armed peace of to-day
a crushing burden more and more difficult for the nations to
bear. It consequently seems evident that if this situation be
prolonged, it will inevitably lead to that very disaster which
it is desired to avoid, and the horrors of which make every
humane mind shudder by anticipation. It is the supreme duty,
therefore, at the present moment of all States to put some
limit to these unceasing armaments, and to find means of
averting the calamities which threaten the whole world. Deeply
impressed by this feeling, His Majesty the Emperor has been
pleased to command me to propose to all Governments who have
Representatives at the Imperial Court the meeting of a
Conference to discuss this grave problem. Such a Conference,
with God's help, would be a happy augury for the opening
century. It would concentrate in one powerful effort the
strivings of all States which sincerely wish to bring about
the triumph of the grand idea of universal peace over the
elements of trouble and discord. It would, at the same time,
cement their agreement by a united affirmation of the
principles of law and equity on which rest the security of
States and the welfare of peoples."

Great Britain, Parliamentary Publications

(Papers by Command: Russia, Number 1, 1899).

Having allowed his supremely noble proposition to stand before

the world for consideration during a period of four months,
and having received from almost every governing authority a
formal expression of willingness to join in the Conference
recommended, the sovereign of Russia pursued his grand design,
on the 11th of January, 1899, by the following communication
to the foreign representatives at his court:

"When, in the month of August last, my August master

instructed me to propose to the Governments which have
Representatives in St. Petersburg the meeting of a Conference
with the object of seeking the most efficacious means for
assuring to all peoples the blessings of real and lasting
peace, and, above all, in order to put a stop to the
progressive development of the present armaments, there
appeared to be no obstacle in the way of the realization, at
no distant date, of this humanitarian scheme. The cordial
reception accorded by nearly all the Powers to the step taken
by the Imperial Government could not fail to strengthen this
expectation. While highly appreciating the sympathetic terms
in which the adhesions of most of the Powers were expressed,
the Imperial Cabinet has been also able to collect, with
lively satisfaction, evidence of the warmest approval which
has reached it, and continues to be received, from all classes
of society in various parts of the globe. Notwithstanding the
strong current of opinion which set in favour of the ideas of
general pacification, the political horizon bas recently
undergone a sensible change. Several Powers have undertaken
fresh armaments, striving to increase further their military
forces, and in the presence of this uncertain situation, it
might be asked whether the Powers considered the present
moment opportune for the international discussion of the ideas
set forth in the Circular of the 12th (24th) August. In the
hope, however, that the elements of trouble agitating
political centres will soon give place to a calmer disposition
of a nature to favour the success of the proposed Conference,
the Imperial Government is of opinion that it would be
possible to proceed forthwith to a preliminary exchange of
ideas between the Powers, with the object:

(a.) Of seeking without delay means for putting a limit to the

progressive increase of military and naval armaments, a question
the solution of which becomes evidently more and more urgent
in view of the fresh extension given to these armaments; and

(b.) Of preparing the way for a discussion of the questions

relating to the possibility of preventing armed conflicts by
the pacific means at the disposal of international diplomacy.
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In the event of the Powers considering the present moment

favourable for the meeting of a Conference on these bases, it
would certainly be useful for the Cabinets to come to an
understanding on the subject of the programme of their
labours. The subjects to be submitted for international
discussion at the Conference could, in general terms, be
summarized as follows:

"1. An understanding not to increase for a fixed period the

present effective of the armed military and naval forces, and
at the same time not to increase the Budgets pertaining
thereto; and a preliminary examination of the means by which a
reduction might even be effected in future in the forces and
Budgets above-mentioned.

"2. To prohibit the use in the armies and fleets of any new
kind of fire-arms whatever and of new explosives, or any
powders more powerful than those now in use either for rifles
or cannon.

"3. To restrict the use in military warfare of the formidable

explosives already existing, and to prohibit the throwing of
projectiles or explosives of any kind from balloons or by any
similar means.

"4. To prohibit the use in naval warfare of submarine

torpedo-boats or plungers, or other similar engines of
destruction; to give an undertaking not to construct vessels
with rams in the future.

"5. To apply to naval warfare the stipulations of the Geneva

Convention of 1864, on the basis of the Additional Articles of
1868.
"6. To neutralize ships and boats employed in saving those
overboard during or after an engagement.

"7. To revise the Declaration concerning the laws and customs

of war elaborated in 1874 by the Conference of Brussels, which
has remained unratified to the present day.

"8. To accept in principle the employment of good offices, of

mediation and facultative arbitration in cases lending
themselves thereto, with the object of preventing armed
conflicts between nations; to come to an understanding with
respect to the mode of applying these good offices, and to
establish a uniform practice in using them.

"It is well understood that all questions concerning the

political relations of States and the order of things
established by Treaties, as generally all questions which do
not directly fall within the programme adopted by the
Cabinets, must be absolutely excluded from the deliberations
of the Conference. In requesting you, Sir, to be good enough
to apply to your Government for instructions on the subject of
my present communication, I beg you at the same time to inform
it that, in the interest of the great cause which my august
master has so much at heart, His Imperial Majesty considers it
advisable that the Conference should not sit in the capital of
one of the Great Powers, where so many political interests are
centred which might, perhaps, impede the progress of a work in
which all the countries of the universe are equally
interested."

General assent being given to the suggestions here offered,

the next step toward realization of the grand project was
taken, by an arrangement with the government of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands, in accordance with which an invitation was
addressed from The Hague, in April, to many governments, both
the greater and the less of the political world, in the
following terms:
"For political reasons the Imperial Russian Government
considered that it would not be desirable that the meeting of
the Conference should take place in the capital of one of the
Great Powers, and after securing the assent of the Governments
interested, it addressed the Cabinet of The Hague with a view of
obtaining its consent to the choice of that capital as the
seat of the Conference in question. The Minister for Foreign
Affairs at once took the orders of Her Majesty the Queen in
regard to this request, and I am happy to be able to inform
you that Her Majesty, my august Sovereign, has been pleased to
authorize him to reply that it will be particularly agreeable
to her to see the proposed Conference meet at The Hague.
Consequently, my Government, in accord with the Imperial
Russian Government, charges me to invite [the Government
named] to be good enough to be represented at the
above-mentioned Conference, in order to discuss the questions
indicated in the second Russian Circular of the 30th December,
1898 (11th January, 1899), as well as all other questions
connected with the ideas set forth in the Circular of the 12th
(24th) August, 1898, excluding, however, from the
deliberations everything which refers to the political
relations of States or the order of things established by
Treaties. My Government trusts, that [the Government named]
will associate itself with the great humanitarian work to be
entered upon under the auspices of His Majesty the Emperor of
All the Russias, and that it will be disposed to accept this
invitation, and to take the necessary steps for the presence
of its Representatives at The Hague on the 18th May next for
the opening of the Conference, at which each Power, whatever
may be the number of its Delegates, will only have one vote."

Great Britain, Parliamentary Publications

(Papers by Command: Miscellaneous,
Number 1, 1899, pages 3-4 and 8).

In response to this definite invitation, the governments of

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