spaceplane

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...

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)...

Fakes

HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane by Dan Sharp Now available for pre-order here: HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane Tempest Books ISBN: 9781911704294 Format: Hardback Pages: 424 The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...

Thanks to the ever-vigilant Mark Nankivil, we have a number of McDonnell-Douglas Advanced Design sketches to identify. I think I can figure out a few, but I thought it might be fun to let everyone have a go at this game. I'll post one design per post, so we can move them to the correct topics...

LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...

More in German. https://www.flugrevue.de/militaer/auftrag-an-polaris-raumflugzeug-demonstrator-fuer-die-bundeswehr/

Here we go again, folks. Aerospace company chasing VC money with promise of a miracle -- SSTO from a runway to space and back. This time, for sure, Rocky. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/radian-announces-plans-to-build-one-of-the-holy-grails-of-spaceflight/

The "1935-42" option is still the more difficult to write as a lot of material is missing or only available through previously-published sources (And the more I write, the more I prefer my mistakes to be mine rather than copied on Cuny and others) JCC

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...

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...

Hi, http://www.ebay.com/itm/RUSSIAN-SPACE-PROGRAM-STRATOPLANE-MOON-ROCKET-VINTAGE-1960s-NEWS-PRESS-PHOTO-/140643378384

ASPEN BACKGROUND In the 1950s and 1960s, many potential uses of nuclear power were explored, such as NTRs. An NTR uses a nuclear reactor to heat a working fluid, such as hydrogen, and exhaust this fluid in a nozzle for thrust. Many studies of this technology were conducted, and prototypes were...

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...

For issue V2N5 of Aerospace Projects Review, I am going to run a companion article to Dennis Jenkins’ piece on the Convair Aerospaceplane design. The new article will describe a number of the competing designs, including but not limited to: Lockheed CL-510 Boeing Model 832/879 Douglas Model...

Hi, http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/1999/TM-1999-209185.pdf

I must preface this first look review by saying that, while I'm interested in space technology, its not my speciality, so I'm approaching this book from this angle. Bill Rose has put together a well written and nicely illustrated book on various military space projects. Its 192 pages long and...

Hi, the Japanese Hope-X is unmanned spaceplane. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2003/2003%20-%201081.html

About 2 weeks ago, I found a thread with this name in the "Space Secret Projects" section. It contained an article from the Flight PDF archive. Now this thread has vanished... :( Anybody got a clue why? If possible, please post it again! many thanks Coach

I've seen the Reaction Engines Ltd Skylon spaceplane mentioned a few times already but I think it deserves it's own thread. It looks cool and will only cost £10 billion(ish) to develop, so if it wasn't designed in Great Britain 'the land of lost opportunties' it would probably get built ;) It...