Review Article
A Low-Cost Launch Assistance System for Orbital Launch Vehicles
Table 3
Mass budget of the proposed LAS.
| Component | Mass, kg | Fraction, % |
| LVS rocket mass | 270 | 3.7 | LVS aeroshell | 30 | 0.4 | LVS-LAS attach points | 40 | 0.5 | Traction cables | 1551 | 21.3 | Clustering cable | 49 | 0.7 | Top blocks | 91 | 1.2 | Joints of traction cable | 670 | 9.2 | Balloons, uninflated | 4566 | 62.6 | Balloons avionics block | 25 | 0.3 | Total | 7292 | 100.0 | Balloons lift at 39.6 km | 8649 | 118.6 | Ballast of balloons | 1357 | 18.6 |
|
|