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  1. Tuomasn

    X-30 NASP composite configuration evolution

    Following discussion in the late 1980s whether the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) program should go for a traditional award to one airframe and propulsion manufacturer to build the actual X-30 test aircraft, or form a team among the remaining companies (McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics...
    • Tuomasn
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    • 1980s cold war early 1990s nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space plane spaceplane ssto united states united states air force
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    • Forum: User Artwork and Models
  2. T

    Dassault VORTEX (Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable de Transport et d'Exploration)

    Dassault Aviation expresses willingness to commit to a Space Plane project, meeting AdlAE recent new long term perspectives: (Link in Fr - You might want tuse an auto-translator)...
    • TomcatViP
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    • 2025 armée de l'air et de l'espace cold war ii dassault france french fifth republic late 2020s ministère des armées space plane space shuttle spaceplane
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  3. M

    POLARIS Spaceplanes SSTO

    More in German. https://www.flugrevue.de/militaer/auftrag-an-polaris-raumflugzeug-demonstrator-fuer-die-bundeswehr/
    • muttbutt
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    • 2022 bundeswehr cold war ii early 2020s federal republic of germany space plane spaceplane
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. 7

    Boeing / North American Rockwell Windjammer SSTO

    The other day I was looking at some space proposals from the past and I stumbled upon this beautiful SSTO. I have only been able to find one source that gave some details about it and I'm very much hoping that you guys can help get more details/drawings on this proposal. "The ”Windjammer”...
    • 7Daniel13
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    • 1970s boeing hthl nasa north american rockwell proposal space plane space race ssto united states united states air force windjammer
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  5. Tuomasn

    X-30A COPPER CANYON and Tupolev Tu-2000A

    My 3D models of two comparable 1980s SSTO projects: This one is meant to represent the "Government baseline" vehicle that was the end result of the $5.5-million COPPER CANYON study program run in 1984-1985, and input for NASP Phase 2. It was scaled up somewhat from the initial "du Pont...
    • Tuomasn
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    • cold war single-stage-to-orbit soviet union space plane spaceplane ssto united states usa ussr
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  6. bobbymike

    Microwave Power Beaming May Launch Space Planes into Orbit

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/microwave-power-beaming-for-launching-satellites-into-orbit A big part of the reason that it’s so expensive to send objects into space is that in order to get them there, we currently use messy, chemically-powered rockets that shed...
  7. Orionblamblam

    Douglas MARS Model 2235 aerospaceplane

    Manned Aerodynamic Reusable Spaceship. Presented by Douglas in 1962 for the Aerospaceplane (ASP) contest. Clearly, someone at Douglas had watched "When Worlds Collide" a few too many times. This was designed not as a true SSTO, but as a twin-ship formation... one carrying payload, the other...
    • Orionblamblam
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    • cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division early 1960s nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space plane space race spaceplane ssto united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  8. hesham

    Japanese Shuttle, Space Plane & other Projects

    Hi, the Japanese Hope-X is unmanned spaceplane. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2003/2003%20-%201081.html
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    • cold war deep space probes heavy lift vehicle japan mars moon national space development agency of japan (nasda) post-cold war satellite single-stage-to-orbit space age space plane space probes space race space shuttle spaceplane ssto
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  9. Archibald

    US Lifting Bodies Studies - START (ASSET/PRIME), FDL, X-24, etc.

    The lifting body program was one of the highlight of the NASA in the 60's. Various machines flew (HL-10, X-24, M2F series) This program only consisted of atmospheric tests...well, that's the "offcial" version But there's two mysteries - 1 Aparently, modified HL-10 were send into suborbital...
    • Archibald
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    • cold war nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space plane space race space weapons ssto united states united states air force variable geometry
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  10. Tuomasn

    Tupolev Tu-2000 & other VKS projects

    A thread for the Tupolev Tu-2000 aerospaceplane and also other VKS contenders. The Tu-2000A (first two pictures) was to be a 70-90 tonnes demonstrator of the actual SSTO spacecraft. The third pic shows a model that was displayed at the 1992 Mosaeroshow. I'm still not certain whether it's meant...
    • Tuomasn
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    • 1980s 1990s 2000s airliner cccp cold war hypersonic nuclear battlefield post-cold war russian federation single-stage-to-orbit soviet strategic missile troops soviet union space plane space weapons spaceplane ssto strategic bomber tupolev okb ussr
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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