Low cost rocket
OwnerYoshiro NakaMatsinventor
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Abstract
A low-cost rocket includes an atmospheric flight part and an exo-atmospheric flight part, and uses the atmospheric air part to ascend into the atmosphere through the use of propellers for the atmospheric portion of the flight. The atmospheric flight part separates from the exo-atmospheric flight part in the vicinity of the exo-atmosphere and the exo-atmospheric rocket is launched thereupon. The atmospheric flight part descends through the atmosphere using autorotation of the propellers and, if necessary, a soft landing can be affected by controlling the pitch of the propellers just prior to landing.
Claims8
A low-cost rocket separately utilizing an atmosphere and an exo-atmosphere, comprising:
- an atmospheric flight part configured to control ascent of the low cost rocket in the atmosphere using air and including at least two propeller units configured to control descent of the atmospheric flight part, each propeller unit being configured on an opposite end of the atmospheric flight part with respect to another propeller unit;
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- an exo-atmospheric flight part provided with a rocket and configured to separate from the atmospheric flight part after reaching the exo-atmosphere and control ascent of the low-cost rocket into the exo-atmospheric by using the rocket,
- wherein the atmospheric flight part descends and lands on Earth after separation from the exo-atmospheric part using air and propellers of each of the propeller units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.