Designing Propulsion reliability of space Launch vehicles

摘要

single stage to Orbit (SSTO) launch vehicle reliability is an important part of the performance evaluation of this class of vehicles. Our research is concerned with the pro- pulsion reliabilities of space vehicles for catastrophic fail- ures. Four methods are developed for calculating the pro- pulsion reliabilities of space vehicles for catastrophic fail- ures. Four methods are developed for calculating the pro- pulsion reliability of such a vehicle.