being prepared for launch in 2010 A spaceplane is an aircraft designed to fly up to extreme altitudes ... A spaceplane features some differences from rocket launch systems. Aerodynamic lift Main Lift force ... reentry Because suborbital spaceplane s are designed for trajectories that do not reach orbital ... propulsion. While earlier spaceplane designs typically had to depend on multiple types of engines ... can be made very light and strong. A horizontally launched spaceplane approximates a cylinder ... and build. The main problem with SSTO operation is Spaceplane Overall weight overall weight . Flown ... spaceplane that was subsequently cancelled , the late 1980s Soviet Union Soviet Shuttle ... is intended to offset this disadvantage. Suborbital spaceplanes Other spaceplane designs are suborbital spaceplane suborbital , requiring far less energy for propulsion, and can use the vehicle ... and ASSET spaceplane ASSET flown as a subscale precursor to the X 20 Dyna Soar spaceplane ... Space Center to build and lease its Lynx rocketplane Lynx Mark II spaceplane, which would be designed ... Zander s spaceplane equipped with wings made of combustible alloys that it would burn during its ascent ... Air Force invested some effort in a paper study of a variety of spaceplane projects under their Aerospaceplane ... spaceplane, but was canceled in the early 1960s in lieu of NASA s Project Gemini and the U.S. Air Force ... peroxide kerosene spaceplane called Black Horse spaceplane Black Horse . ref http www.astronautix.com ... to build a SSTO hydrogen fuelled spaceplane VentureStar that failed when the hydrogen tank design proved ... spaceplane system with the code name Blackstar spaceplane Blackstar , SR 3 XOV among other nicknames ... an upper stage waverider spaceplane capable of carrying small payloads and crews near to or into orbit ... proposal to NASA to develop the Prometheus spacecraft Prometheus , a lifting body lifting body spaceplane ..., Sierra Nevada Corporation proposed nowrap phase 2 extensions of its Dream Chaser spaceplane ... more details
A suborbital spaceplane is a spaceplane designed specifically for sub orbital spaceflight . A few projects of civil and military suborbital spaceplanes were in past in Nazi Germany , United States , Soviet Union etc. From the beginning of 21st century, it is expected that this type of spacecraft , as projects of many private companies, will play a key role in early space tourism . Citation needed date April 2009 History The first ever true suborbital spaceplane was the North American X 15 , which X 15 Flight 90 first flew above the K rm n line in 1963. The first privately built and privately funded suborbital spaceplane was Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne , which SpaceShipOne flight 15P first flew above the K rm n line in 2004. See also List of manned spacecraft List of private spaceflight companies Crew and cargo transport vehicles Point to point sub orbital spaceflight space tourism Spacecraft stub Category Spaceplanes ... more details
Summary Non free use rationale Description Hermes before re entry Source http www.esa.int esa mmg mmg.pl?b b&keyword hermes&single y&start 17 Article Hermes spaceplane Portion Low resolution Purpose To demonstrate what Hermes was intended to look like Replaceability Not with a free image other information ESA Licensing Non free promotional image has rationale yes image is of living person no ... more details
TOCRight Spaceliner commonly refers to SpaceLiner , a suborbital spaceplane developed by German Aerospace Center DLR Spacecraft in general disambig ... more details
Summary Aviation Week & Space Technology 6 March 2006 Artist s concept depicts an XB 70 like carrier aircraft dropping a manned spaceplane at high altitude. Possibly developed in the late 1980s, the highly classified two stage to orbit Blackstar spaceplane Blackstar system could place a small payload in low Earth orbit or serve as a rapid response reconnaissance platform. The two vehicles were seen several times throughout the 1990s, but may have been shelved in recent years, according to officials familiar with the program. Graphic by James Petty and Travis Thatcher. Source Downloaded from http www.aviationnow.com media images awst images small AW 03 06 2006 00 Cover.jpg to illustrate Blackstar spaceplane article Fair Use Rationale Used to illustrate the article Blackstar spaceplane . The speculative black project, Blackstar, was revealed in the March 6, 2006 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology as the cover story of the issue depicted in the image. No public domain images of the article subject exist, as it is a classified project and the cover image contains speculative artwork. Blackstar spaceplane is as much about the reporting methodology in the specific AW&ST issue as it is the spaceplane. The file is of sufficiently low resolution to prevent it from being used for unauthorized reproductions. Licensing Non free magazine cover ... more details
about State Road 3 or State Route 3 List of highways numbered 3 SR 3 has the following meanings Saints Row 3 , a video game SR 3 Vikhr , a Russian assault rifle Blackstar spaceplane disambig ... more details
Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons Summary 3 view line drawing showing the general configuration of the ASSET spaceplane. Image taken from the NASA published work, Testing Lifting Bodies at Edwards by Robert G. Hoey Licensing PD USGov NASA ... more details
wiktionary asset ASSET or Asset can refer to Business Asset , something possessed by a business business entity from which future economic benefits may be obtained. Employability Assets Asset , in employability a person s knowledge, skills and attitudes. Economics Asset economics , a durable good which is not fully depreciated to zero value after the current period of analysis. Intelligence Asset intelligence Asset , an outside person who provides intelligence. Military Military asset Asset , a weapon or means of production of weapons or other defensive or offensive devices or capabilities. Space ASSET spaceplane ASSET , a spaceplane. Computing asset computing , an asset in Computer security context ASSET Technology Group , an Egyptian software company. Digital asset s the graphics, audio, maps, and other artistic data that go into media, particularly interactive media such as video games Reusable asset s items that provide solutions for a given problem disambig de Asset ... more details
SS1 may refer to Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne The spaceplane that completed the first privately funded manned space flight. SS 1 a British car of the 1930s and predecessor to the Jaguar. Pindad SS1 an Indonesian assault rifle. Space Ship One album The Paul Gilbert Album Sky Sports 1 A British satellite sports channel See also SS 1 disambiguation disambig zh SS1 ... more details
Uragan is the Slavic word for hurricane , and can refer to BM 27 Uragan, a Russian rocket launcher Energia II Uragan, a planned Soviet heavy lift rocket GLONASS satellites MAZ 7310 Uragan, a Soviet Russian army vehicle Uragan spaceplane , an unconfirmed Soviet rocketplane project M 22 Uragan Shtil SA N 7 , Gadfly , Soviet naval multirole SAM system Sclass Uragan guard ship Uragan class monitor ironclad disambig ru ... more details
GFDL self date 3 March 2009 migration relicense artwork created by Millennium Twain in 2004, free for WorldWide distribution ... includes Year 2001 X49 Scramjet Spaceplane computer model set against backdrop of Alpha Centauri trinary star system, four light years distant from Earth and four years travel time, at an acceleration and deceleration of one gravity, with peak velocity of twice normal lightspeed . ... more details
Skylon is a name used for several things Aerospace Reaction Engines Skylon , a proposed single stage, turbine based, airbreathing orbital spaceplane Architecture Skylon tower , a futuristic piece of architecture that featured prominently in the Festival of Britain in 1951 Skylon Tower , observation tower in Niagara Falls, Ontario Fiction Land of the Lost 1974 television series geography and technology Skylons Skylons , a type of flying object in the science fiction television series Land of the Lost Music Skylon album Skylon album , a 2008 album by Ott Skylon , the final track on Gruff Rhys 2007 solo album Candylion disambig fr Skylon homonymie ... more details
Mergeto Spaceflight discuss Talk Spaceflight Merge discussion for Point to point sub orbital spaceflight date February 2010 unreferenced date December 2009 Point to point sub orbital spaceflight is a category of spaceflight in which a spacecraft uses a sub orbital flight for transportation. This can provide a two hour trip from London to Sydney . Today, no company offers this type of spaceflight for transportation. However, Virgin Galactic is planning to build a spaceplane called SpaceShipThree , which will offer this service in the future. See also Non stop flight Future of ultra long haul Future of ultra long haul air travel Category Spaceflight space stub ... more details
Space bomber may refer to or Space Bomber , a Japanese arcade game Military spacecraft bomber projects These designs are also referred to variously as sub orbital bombers, antipodal bombers, orbital bombers. Blackstar spaceplane , a suspected USAF black project of the 1990 s Amerika Bomber , the Nazi Germany proposal for a very long range bomber, some of which were spacecraft Silbervogel , a Nazi Germany project from Sanger Mikoyan Gurevich MiG 105 project options X 20 Dyna Soar project options Keldysh bomber Disambig ... more details
Cosmopolis XXI is a planned Russian vehicle that is billed as a space tourism vehicle, similar to Mojave Aerospace s Tier One program. Designed and built by the Myasishchev Myasishchev Design Bureau , it would use the M 55X launch aircraft derived from Myasishchev M 55 , and the proposed C 21 spaceplane or its successor the Explorer. It would be a TSTSO Two Stage to SubOrbit launch platform. The Explorer spaceplane is a suborbital tourist spaceplane based on the C 21 design. The plane is being developed by Space Adventures with the Russian Federal Space Agency and is designed to carry 5 passengers. It is to be air launched by carrier aircraft from a Space Adventures spaceport . The spaceport for the Explorer is being developed with Prodea systems Prodea the company of Anousheh Ansari Anousheh and Amir Ansari , who funded the Ansari X Prize in the United Arab Emirates , the Ras Al Khaimah spaceport . References Space.com http www.space.com businesstechnology 060222 techwed spaceadventures.html Suborbital Rocketship Fleet to Carry Tourists Spaceward in Style February 22, 2006 External links http www.comspacewatch.com news viewpr.html?pid 19040 Space Tourism Pioneers, Space Adventures and the Ansari X Prize Title Sponsors, to Provide First Suborbital Spaceflight Tourism Vehicles SpaceAdventures http msnbc.msn.com id 11393569 New group to develop passenger spaceship MSNBC http www.spaceadventures.com media info vehicles c21 C 21 Spacecraft at Space Adventures Myasishchev Category Myasishchev aircraft Category Human spaceflight programmes Category Space Adventures space stub de Space Adventures Explorer ... more details
Orphan date November 2010 Falke was a German program to fly a subscale model of the Space Shuttle orbiter in real conditions in order to obtain aerodynamic data in the frame of the preparation of the Hermes spaceplane Hermes spaceplane. One flight test was performed in 1990. Organization The program was funded by the German federal Ministry of Research. The leadership of the program was German Aerospace Center DLR . The flight model was produced by the German company OHB System Flight model characteristics File STS 73 landing.jpg thumb right The Space Shuttle, whose shape was used for Falke Length 6.8 m Wing span 4.4 m Height 2.6 m Mass 730 kg The shape of Falke was the one of the Space Shuttle orbiter with a 1 5 scale factor. Falke had its own power, an autopilot and a computer to control the hydraulically actuated flight control surfaces of the spaceplane. The sensor suite of Falke was measuring attitude, temperature, flux, pressure and acceleration. CNES was tracking Falke by radar and telemetry. Flight history The only flight of Falke took place on September 6, 1990. French space agency CNES launched a stratospheric balloon from its Aire sur l Adour center carrying Falke. After a 2 h 43 mn ascent, Falke was released at an altitude of 38.8 km. At the end of the flight, a parachute was deployed at an altitude of 6 km and Falke landed in horizontal position on airbag s. Outcome Three further flights were foreseen, but they were cancelled when the European Space Agency cancelled Hermes. Reference French Balloon Operational Activity Overall view and two examples FALKE, an aeronautic project using Stratospheric balloon, and Arctic long duration flights during the ILAS campaign Pierre Faucon CNES, Aire sur l Adour Paper ISTS 98 j 19V Category Spaceplanes ... more details
Sets, which attempt to define the maximum conditions for four general uses of the spaceplane . Due ... 15 , weight capacity 60 klbs See also Spacecraft propulsion Spacecraft and spaceplane propulsion Aerospike engine Space transport Scramjet Not SSTO Two stage to orbit Three stage to orbit Other spaceplane ... more details
morefootnotes date March 2011 Image BOR 4S.jpg thumb 300px BOR 4S at MAKS Airshow in Zhukovskiy city Zhukovskiy , 2005 The BOR 4 flight vehicle is a scaled 1 2 prototype of the Soviet Spiral spaceplane Spiral VTVL VTHL VTHL vertical takeoff, horizontal landing spaceplane . An unmanned, subscale craft, its purpose was to test the heatshield tiles and reinforced carbon carbon for the Buran spacecraft Buran space shuttle , then under development. BOR was the Russian acronym for Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane. BOR 4 uses the lifting body concept that was realised in the Russian Mikoyan Gurevich MiG 105 before. cn date March 2011 Several of them were built and flown between 1982 and 1984 from the Kapustin Yar launch site at speeds of up to Mach 25. After reentry, they were designed to parachute to an ocean splashdown for recovery by the Soviet Navy . The testing was nearly identical to that carried out by the US Air Force ASSET spaceplane ASSET program in the 1960s, which tested the heatshield design for the X 20 Dyna Soar . On June 3, 1982 a Royal Australian Air Force P 3 Orion reconnaissance aircraft captured the first Western images of the craft as it was recovered by a Soviet ship near the Cocos Islands . cn date March 2011 According to Mark Wade s Encyclopedia Astronautica, the design of the BOR 4 differed slightly from that of Spiral in that it had a flattened, wider body with a much smaller vertical stabiliser. The cruise back turbojet...seems to have been eliminated, and the canted stabiliser tips were cut off at the Mach angle , a MiG trademark. cn date March 2011 In addition, the wings were now fixed at the 60 degree up position and functioned solely as vertical stabilizers. Several of these craft have been preserved in aerospace museums around the world. cn date March 2011 Flights 1982 06 04 COSMOS 1374 suborbital splashed down into the Indian Ocean about 900 km to the west of Australia 1983 03 16 COSMOS 1445 orbital splashed down into the Indian Ocean abo ... more details
Epos may refer to Electronic Point of Sale refers to technologies which enable an efficient recording of the sale of goods or services to the customer Epos poetry see epic poetry Epos speakers Epos Ltd. a British loudspeaker manufacturer Epos library ship Epos games a defunct arcade computer game manufacturer Epos the second studio album of the Italian Epic Metal band Wotan EPOS a company located in Israel providing advanced digital positioning technologies Epos watches Epos a Swiss watch manufacturer Embedded PowerPC Operating System, from IBM EPOS computer a series of Czechoslovak computers Mikoyan Gurevich MiG 105 also known as EPOS, a proposed Russian spaceplane epos watches epos speakers Disambig cs Epos rozcestn k ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2009 Image Aerospaceplane.jpg thumb 300px Aerospaceplane 1 artist conception . Lab research showed hydrogen fueled airbreathers could be used for space launch. The US Air Force s aerospaceplane project encompassed a variety of projects from 1958 until 1963 to study a fully reusable spaceplane . A variety of designs were studied during the lifetime of the project, including most of the early efforts on liquid air cycle engine s LACE and even a nuclear propulsion nuclear powered ramjet . The effort was started largely due to the work of Weldon Worth at the Wright Patterson AFB , who published a short work outlining a manned spaceplane. AF officials were interested enough to start SR 89774 study requirement for a reusable spaceplane in 1957. By 1959 this work had resulted in the Recoverable Orbital Launch System , or ROLS , based around a LACE engine, known at the time as a Liquid Air Collection System , or LACES . Further work showed that more performance could be gained by extracting only the oxygen from the liquid air , a system they referred to as Air Collection and Enrichment System , or ACES . A contract to develop an ACES testbed was placed with Marquardt Corporation Marquardt and General Dynamics , with Garrett AiResearch building the heat exchanger for cooling the air. The original ACES design was fairly complex the air was first liquified in the heat exchanger cooled by liquid hydrogen fuel, then pumped into a low pressure tank for short term storage. From there it was then pumped into a high pressure tank where the oxygen was separated and the rest mostly nitrogen was dumped overboard. In late 1960 and early 1961 a 125 N demonstrator engine was being operated for up to five minutes at a time. In early 1960 Air Force offered a development contract to build a spaceplane with a crew of three that could take off from any runway and fly directly into orbit and return. They wanted the design to be in operation in 1970 for a total develop ... more details
Binnie may refer to Alexander Binnie 1839&ndash 1917 , a civil engineer who worked on crossings of the River Thames in London Binnie Barnes 1903&ndash 1998 , an English actress Binnie Hale 1899&ndash 1984 , an English actress and musician Binnie Kirshenbaum born 1964 , an American writer of both novels and short stories Binnie Roberts , a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders Brian Binnie born 1953 , a test pilot for the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne Ian Binnie born 1939 , a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada Paul Binnie born 1967 , a Scottish artist working in the Japanese tradition of woodblock printmaking William Binnie architect c. 1885 1886 ? was a Scottish architect William Binnie engineer 1867&ndash 1949 , a British civil engineer William Harrison Binnie born 1958 , a Scottish American businessman and competitive race car driver surname ... more details
engines. This rocket powered spaceplane , with similarities to the X 20 Dyna Soar project, would ... rocket powered spaceplane resembles the civilian Tier One spaceplane system as well as NASA s X ... of a military spaceplane such as Blackstar would be to conduct high altitude or orbital reconnaissance ... spaceplane could also be used to place small satellites in orbit, to retrieve them, to provide ... hypervelocity weapons. The small spaceplane described by Aviation Week appears to have only a very ... of the Space Shuttle, most leading US aerospace contractors explored orbital spaceplane designs .... The use of a spaceplane as part of the launching system to replace the Space Shuttle has been ... of this spaceplane. According to one declassified RAND Corp. report, two of the three vehicles failed ... the US space conspiracy that never was? Categories Other languages DEFAULTSORT Blackstar Spaceplane ... more details
Xerus pronunciation zEr us , was a suborbital spaceplane concept proposed by XCOR Aerospace . It would be capable of transporting one pilot and one passenger as well as some Suborbital spaceflight Scientific experiments science experiments and it would even be capable of carrying an upper stage which would launch near apogee and therefore would potentially be able to carry satellite s into Low Earth Orbit low Earth orbit . ref name sdc20030519 http www.space.com businesstechnology technology xcor xerus 030520.html Space.com XCOR Zeroes in on Xerus , space.com , 2003 05 19, accessed 2011 01 04. ref On March 26, 2008, XCOR announced a new design that would supersede Xerus called Lynx rocketplane Lynx . ref cite web url http www.xcor.com press releases 2008 08 03 26 Lynx suborbital vehicle.html title XCOR Aerospace announces new suborbital vehicle " Lynx" to fly within two years publisher XCOR Aerospace ref References Reflist External links http www.xcor.com XCOR Aerospace website http www.space.com spacenews 070423 business monday.html Space.com XCOR Pursues Dream a Step at a Time , Space.com, 2007 04 23. DEFAULTSORT Xerus Spaceplane Category Mojave Air & Space Port Category Rocket stubs Category Manned spacecraft Category Individual aircraft Category Private spaceflight Category Reusable launch systems Category Rocket powered aircraft Category Spaceplanes Category Space access Rocket stub pnb ... more details
The Italian Aerospace Research Centre Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali CIRA is a consortium established in July 1984 to promote the growth and success of the aerospace industry in Italy its head office is in Capua . The majority of CIRA share capital is held by government organizations the Italian Space Agency ASI and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche National Research Council of Italy Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR . ref cite web url http www.cira.it html inglese azienda info cira.asp title General Information CIRA publisher CIRA ref Spaceplane technology CIRA is developing spaceplane technology using its facilities for numerical simulation and ground tests, and has flown its first transonic flight test of an flying test bed FTB vehicle dropped from a high altitude balloon. ref name malik cite web url http www.space.com businesstechnology 070312 usv droptest.html title Italian Firm Hails Test of Unmanned Spacecraft Prototype author Tariq Malik date 12 March 2007 ref CIRA intends to develop FTB vehicles by 2012 that can perform atmospheric reentry from low Earth orbit , launched using the Vega rocket Vega space launch system. ref name malik ref cite web url http usv.cira.it index.php?option com content&task view&id 1&Itemid 12&lang english title USV Program publisher CIRA ref This is consistent with the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle IXV plan of the European Space Agency . ref cite web url http www.hobbyspace.com nucleus index.php?itemid 5513 title European rocket research programs USV, IXV, FLPP publisher HobbySpace date 2008 02 24 ref Since 2005, CIRA is a partner of the Euro Mediterranean Center for Climate Change Euro Mediterranean Center for Climate Change CMCC . References reflist coord missing Italy Category Space centres Category Research institutes in Italy space stub it Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali fi CIRA ... more details
Irene Bredt born 1911 in Vienna, Austria died 1983 in Berlin, Germany was a German engineer, mathematician and physicist. She is co credited with the design of Silbervogel a proposed intercontinental spaceplane bomber prior to and during World War II . Life and career Bredt passed her youth in her native Austria. She relocated to Germany in February 1936 to work on a proposal for a manned intercontinental aircraft. She received a Ph.D. in Physics 1937 , after which she began working with Eugen S nger . During the period 1937 1942 she performed research in thermodynamics of liquid fueled reaction motors as S nger s personal assistant their work would become famous as a daring plan to launch an armed spaceplane toward North America the plane would theoretically have sufficient range to land at a Japanese controlled airfield in the Pacific Basin after dropping its bombs on the USA. In 1942 Bredt became Senior Researcher for ramjet testing at the German test center at Ainring , remaining there until the end of the war. Bredt and S nger were recruited by the United States to work in advanced aerospace projects, but declined. They remained in Germany until July 1946, when they moved to Paris, France to work as consultants to French aircraft and space companies. Bredt and S nger were married in 1951. While in France they consulted on the SS 10 anti tank missile, the Griffon turbo ramjet experimental aircraft, and the R 101 ramjet missile. The pair returned to Stuttgart, Germany in 1954 to head the newly created German Aerospace Center Institute for the Physics of Jet Propulsion . They remained with that institution until 1961 S nger and 1962 Bredt . Honors In 1970 Bredt was honored by the German Rocket Society with the Hermann Oberth Gold Medal, for her impressive scientific accomplishments. References reflist http www.astronautix.com astros bredt.htm Category Austrian scientists Category Rocket scientists Category Aerospace engineering Category Aerospace engineers Categor ... more details
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