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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 22, 2013
Applicant:

Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft- Und Raumfahrt E.v., Cologne, DE;

Inventor:

Wolfgang Kitsche, Jagsthausen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/401 (2013.01); B64G 1/402 (2013.01);
Abstract

In order to produce a space flight drive for propelling a spacecraft which can use the available fuel with great efficiency and which can transport heavy payloads to great heights, it is proposed that the space flight drive should comprise a fuel tank for holding a fuel, an oxidizer tank for holding an oxidizer, a combustion chamber device for the conversion of the fuel by the oxidizer, a propulsion nozzle device adjoining the combustion chamber device and a shroud device which surrounds the propulsion nozzle device annularly at least in sections for the production of an air sheath flow during a flight of the spacecraft through the atmosphere.


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