METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF RAW MATERIAL TO ORBIT, ROCKET POWER PLANT, ROCKET ON ITS BASE, METHOD FOR INJECTION OF SPACE VEHICLES INTO GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR ITS REALIZATION AND TRANSPORTATION-FUELING SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC B64G1/16 F02K9/42 B64G1/26 B64G1/66 

FIELD: rocket-space equipment, mainly means and methods for water supply to low-orbital spacecraft.

SUBSTANCE: the offered method provides for use of the energy of formation of the raw material, in particular, of water from the fuel components for increasing the efficiency of the means of its injection into orbit. The offered rocket power plant has a chemical reactor, in which the given product is formed, as well as a heat-exchange unit, in which the heat of the chemical reaction is transferred to the fuel components. The latter results in the growth of the power plant specific impulse. The reaction product is cooled, and a condensate (water) is obtained which is accumulated in the storage tank. The offered rocket may use one of the cleared fuel tanks for accumulation of condensate. The offered transportation system includes the offered rocket, orbital station equipped with a system of water processing to fuel components, and means of delivery of the space vehicle to the station together with the non-filled boosting unit. The offered transportation-fueling station includes also an orbital fueling complex. Space vehicles injected into high-altitude orbits, in particular, into a geostationary orbit, as well as space vehicles returning on the Earth, may be refueled there. At injection of the space vehicle into a geostationary orbit the dependence of the efficiency of injection on the latitude of the cosmodrome is essentially reduced (by 2-3 times).

EFFECT: reduced cost of supply of the orbital stations and cost of injection of the space vehicle into a geostationary orbit, as well as into other trajectories, reduced dependence of the cost of injection of the space vehicle into a geostationary orbit on the latitude of the cosmodrome.

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