Patent ID: 6769651
Filing Date: 2004-08-03
Classification: B64G,F01D,F02K

Abstract:
A multifunctional launch vehicle of a combined scheme with cruise LRESs, the launch vehicle comprising a lower multiunit assembly of rocket units with cruise LRESs, including a central and connected thereto side rocket units and tandem secured on the central unit a transition compartment, acceleration rocket units and a head unit with a payload, head domes of side rocket units, and a system for securing the side rocket units to the central unit, characterized in that the lower multiunit assembly is composed of identical rocket units having identical propellant tanks and identical cruise LRESs with adjustable thrust, secured in a gimbal suspension, the side rocket units are mounted on the central rocket unit symmetrically relative to its longitudinal axis in sectors formed by swinging planes of the cruise LRES of the central rocket unit so that the swinging planes of the cruise LRES of each side rocket unit are parallel to corresponding swinging planes of the cruise LRES of the central rocket unit.