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1. Principles of space launcher architecture
1.1 Launch vehicle kinetic mission and Tsiolkovsky equation
The launcher's mission is to place a payload into orbit. To do this, the launcher must impart potential and kinetic energy to the payload so that it can maintain orbit. Indeed, the specific energy of a body in an elliptical orbit (figure 1 ) around the Earth with a semi-major axis of is the sum of kinetic and potential energy and verifies the following equation :
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