JAXA Manned Capsule

[XP67_Moonbat]

Looks like Japan's getting on the capsule band wagon.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2009/01/pictures-jaxas-h-iib-launched.html

 

[blackstar]

Their senior minister who has responsibility for space gave an interview to Space News about a month or two ago and stated that Japan was not going to develop its own human spaceflight capability. He was unequivocal about it. I suspect that this project is like many other examples where Japanese industry or lower level JAXA engineers produced concept art for a project with no official approval. If you look at drawings of their robotic spaceplane in the early 1990s it often had windows.

 

[blackstar]

India's proposed manned spacecraft.

They supposedly are getting Russian help, but this does not look Russian at all.

 

[Archibald]

Sounds a reasonable project, aside the date. 2015 looks a bit too much optimistic

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

I'll bet curry will be served on that flight. My mouth's already watering . Besides, seeing as you lose your sense of taste in space, curry would be a logical choice of food up there.

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015982976178540563

View: https://twitter.com/ELS_inc_PR/status/2015982976178540563

Wind tunnel testing completed! Using a capsule model of our "ELS-RS," we tested the flight capabilities required for re-entry and recovery. "ELS-RS" The results of this test will be used to inform future development.

Selected for the JAXA “Innovative Space Transportation Programs” [Nov 20]

ElevationSpace Inc. is pleased to announce that our proposal has been selected under the JAXA Innovative Space Transportation Programs – 4th research’s request for proposal (RFP).

Following this selection for the RFP, ElevationSpace will advance a joint research initiative with JAXA and Tohoku University on “Post-Launch Abort Operational Scenarios and Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) for the Return of a Capsule-Type Manned Spacecraft.”