Europe's Phoenix: Test Craft Sets Stage For Reusable Rocketry

Hi,

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/europe_phoenix_020621.html

Dont we have the topic about the Space Hopper/Phoenix already? I am surprised.

Matej said:

Dont we have the topic about the Space Hopper/Phoenix already? I am surprised.

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...Probably. But as I've pointed out in the past numerous times, the Search Engine for this version of whatever BB software Overscan installed basically, sucks. It even royally sucks, for that matter. Note that this isn't a singular criticism towards Secret Projects, as the problem tends to apply to most BBS' based on HTML from my own experience over the past decade, and the number of misses achieved when trying to determine if a topic has already been discussed combined with the time taken to search vs. just actually posting the thread...well, when you throw in the fact that on every other forum *except* this one, when an old thread is bumped up people usually scream about it, it's pretty much best just to post the topic as "new" and let whoever's playing admin that week sort/merge things into their proper places.

OM said:

...it's pretty much best just to post the topic as "new" and let whoever's playing admin that week sort/merge things into their proper places.

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It takes time. And the time is money. This is why I dont rely exclusively on the search engine and let the other forum members remember too. For example I was searching a lot for the MiG izdelije 33 without the success, than I post the request and found out, that it was posted as MiG "product" 33. Oh well...

Now back to topic - this unmanned cargo space system was proposed by DLR/EADS as TSTO reusable spaceplane.

The small atmospheric demonstrator was tested at Kiruna (NEAT) in Sweden.

There a quite a few hi-res images of Phoenix testing at http://spacetec.zarm.uni-bremen.de/~markus/PhoenixFreifluege/www.ssc.se/esrange/pressreleases/pictures/phoenix04.shtml. A couple of examples (at reduced size) are attached.

Some technical information about the Phoenix-1 is in the attached PDF (from http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/PubFullText/RTO/EN/RTO-EN-AVT-116/EN-AVT-116-02-APP-09.pdf).

And from Flieger Revue 7/2004.