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Optimum Number of Stages in a Staged Vehicle

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The problem of optimum partitioning of a staged vehicle (SV) and determination of the minimal number of stages to provide for a maximum velocity in the vertical SV motion in a homogeneous gravity field is considered at a given value of payload mass.

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  1. Bauman State Technical University, Vtoraya Baumanskaya ul. 5, Moscow, 107005, Russia

    V. A. Kosmodemyanskii

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Kosmodemyanskii, V.A. Optimum Number of Stages in a Staged Vehicle. Cosmic Research 42, 84–91 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COSM.0000017566.79280.a8

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