Gas Turbines Eyed For `Flyback' Booster
General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are exploring the possibility of using derivatives of commercial and military air-breathing, gas turbine engines to power a reusable ``flyback'' booster for a next-generation launch system. Under 10-month, $300,000 contracts awarded earlier this summer by NASA...
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