into space, just after booster separation. A spaceplane is a vehicle that operates as an aircraft ... If a spaceplane cannot successfully control itself, power itself or sustain its flight once Atmospheric ... Because suborbital spaceplane s are designed for trajectories that do not reach orbital speed , they do ... Aircraft A spaceplane operates as an aircraft in Atmosphere of Earth Earth s atmosphere . Aircraft .... Project Gemini Spacecraft s original concept design was as a spaceplane, with paraglider and wheels ... to develop in 1963, Project Gemini Spacecraft s spaceplane concept failed to materialize even after nearly 3 years of continued development. Please refer also to Advanced Gemini Other proposals and Spaceplane ... be easier to design and build. The main problem with SSTO operation is Spaceplane Overall weight ... . The early 1980s BOR 4 subscale test vehicle for the Spiral spaceplane that was subsequently cancelled ... as a spacecraft, it is not typically considered to be a spaceplane. citation needed date December ... spaceplane designs are suborbital spaceplane suborbital , requiring far less energy for propulsion ... Astro Space Center to build and lease its Lynx rocketplane Lynx Mark II spaceplane, which would ... spaceplane concept testing, August 1964. Various types of spaceplanes have been suggested since the early twentieth century. Notable early designs include Friedrich Zander s spaceplane equipped with wings ... in a paper study of a variety of spaceplane projects under their Aerospaceplane efforts of the late ..., Boeing X 20 Dyna Soar , was to have been the first orbital spaceplane, but was canceled in the early ... parachute and spaceplane NASA Paresev paraglider began in 1963. ref name HaGr Hacker, Barton C., and Grimwood ... scale deployment testing. ref name HaGr On the other hand, by December 1963 the paraglider spaceplane ... Gemini s paraglider spaceplane concept persisted within NASA and North American Aviation as late as 1964 ... to orbit peroxide kerosene spaceplane called Black Horse spaceplane Black Horse . ref http www.astronautix.com ... 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 Category Suborbital spaceflight ... more details
TOCRight Spaceliner commonly refers to SpaceLiner , a suborbital spaceplane developed by German Aerospace Center DLR Spacecraft in general disambig ... 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 Letter NumberCombDisambig ... 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
Skylon may refer to Skylon spacecraft , a proposed orbital spaceplane Skylon tower , a tower that featured prominently in the Festival of Britain in 1951 Skylon album Skylon album , a 2008 album by Ott Skylon Tower , an observation tower in Niagara Falls, Ontario Skylons, a type of flying object in Land of the Lost 1974 television series geography and technology Skylons Land of the Lost Skylon , a 2007 song by Gruff Rhys from Candylion disambiguation fr Skylon homonymie nl Skylon pl Skylon ... 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
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
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. References 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
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 Manned spacecraft Category Individual aircraft Category Private spaceflight Category Reusable space launch systems Category Rocket powered aircraft Category Spaceplanes Category Space access Rocket stub pnb ... more details
SS2 or SS 2 may refer to Pindad SS2 , an Indonesian assault rifle made to replace the SS1 USS Plunger SS 2 , one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy R 2 missile NATO reporting name SS 2 Sibling , Soviet Union manufactured improvement of the V 2 rocket Scimitar SS2, a 1988 model of the Reliant Scimitar Setanta Sports 1 & 2 SS1 & SS2 , subscription based sports channels in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Short Circuit 2 , a 1988 motion picture SpaceShipTwo , a suborbital, air launched spaceplane for carrying space tourists Stick Soldiers 2 , the second game in the Stick Soldiers PC game series System Shock 2 , a 1999 first person action role playing game Letter NumberCombDisambig it SS2 ... 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. Reliant Scimitar Reliant Scimitar SS1 a sports car made by Reliant. Pindad SS1 an Indonesian assault rifle. Space Ship One album The Paul Gilbert Album Sky Sports 1 A British satellite sports channel China Railways SS1 an electric locomotive model used in China See also SS 1 disambiguation Letter NumberCombDisambig zh SS1 ... more details
Epos or EPOS may refer to Electronic Point of Sale , technology which enables an efficient recording of the sale of goods or services to the customer An epic poem, see epic poetry Epos library ship , a floating library in Norway Epos Ltd , a British loudspeaker manufacturer Montre Epos SA , a Swiss watch manufacturer Embedded PowerPC Operating System, an IBM product Mikoyan Gurevich MiG 105 , also known as EPOS, a proposed Russian spaceplane EPOS computer , a series of Czechoslovak computers Epos games , a defunct arcade computer game manufacturer Disambig cs Epos rozcestn k de EPOS ... more details
More footnotes 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 VTHL vertical takeoff, horizontal landing spaceplane . An unmanned, subscale spacecraft , NOT a spaceplane itself since, as a test vehicle, it could not sustain aviated flight and landed via a parachute splashdown, same as many space capsules 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. 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 . ref http www.nasa.gov topics technology features hl20 recognition.html ref 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 about 900 km to the west of Australia 1983 12 27 COSMOS 1517 orbital splashed down into the Black Sea to the west of the Crimea peninsula 1984 12 19 COSMOS 1614 orbital splashed down into the Black Sea to the west of the Crimea peninsula Characteristics The vehicle was put into a 225 km orbit by a 65M RB5 ballistic rocket. After circling around the Earth, it descended along a Buran spacecraft Buran type trajectory. cn date December 2011 References Reflist External links ... more details
Mergeto Spaceflight discuss Talk Spaceflight Merge discussion for Point to point sub orbital spaceflight date February 2010 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. ref name fg200802 http www.flightglobal.com blogs hyperbola 2008 02 spaceshipthree revealed.html SpaceShipThree revealed? , FlightGlobal Hyperbola, Rob Coppinger, 29 Feb 2008 ref See also Non stop flight Future of ultra long haul Future of ultra long haul air travel References reflist Category Spaceflight Category Suborbital 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 1990s 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
Missions Sets, which attempt to define the maximum conditions for four general uses of the spaceplane ... 45 x 15 x 15 , weight capacity 60 klbs See also Spacecraft propulsion Spacecraft and spaceplane ... Other spaceplane and spacecraft vehicles Avatar RLV NASA Space Shuttle decision HOTOL Reaction Engines ... 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
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
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 ... suggested that a military spaceplane could also be used to place small satellites in orbit, to retrieve ... orbit to ground hypervelocity weapons. The small spaceplane described by Aviation Week appears ... orbital spaceplane designs, some based on a two stage design. The most serious of these was the Lockheed ... to have been abandoned. The use of a spaceplane as part of the launching system to replace the Space ... by the Blackstar story to have been used to pay for development of this spaceplane. Citation needed ... Blackstar Spaceplane Category Spaceplanes Category Manned spacecraft Category United States experimental ... more details
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Refimprove date May 2009 The RB545 was an air breathing rocket engine that was proposed to propel a British space shuttle see HOTOL to orbit using a single stage. Rolls Royce plc Rolls Royce was involved while British Aerospace BAe worked on the vehicle. Design The exact details of this engine are apparently covered by the UK s Official Secrets Act and there is consequently little public information about its operation. Within the atmosphere, hydrogen fuel would be used in a Precooled jet engine heat exchanger to precool air entering a high overall pressure ratio turbojet like engine cycle, before being burnt with the air in a rocket motor, to produce a very high velocity propulsive jet. Once out of the atmosphere, the RB545 would be capable of burning the hydrogen with on board liquid oxygen as a high efficiency hydrogen oxygen rocket. The engine was given the Rolls Royce name of Swallow . ref http www.flightglobal.com articles 2009 02 23 322955 secret files reveal us interest in uk hotol spaceplane.html Flight Global secret files reveal US interest in UK HOTOL spaceplane. ref See also ATREX References reflist External links http www.aerospaceweb.org question spacecraft q0202.shtml Aerospaceweb.org Verify credibility date May 2009 Reaction Engines Category Rolls Royce rocket engines Category Rocket engines of the United Kingdom Category Hydrogen rocket engines ... more details
The Ras Al Khaimah spaceport will be located in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates . It is a joint venture between Prodea systems Prodea and Space Adventures , and will be used to launch suborbital tourist flights in the Space Adventures Explorer spaceplane. External links http www.tradearabia.com tanews newsdetails snTTN article100753 cnt.html Space travel firm plans 265m RAK venture TradeArabia http msnbc.msn.com id 11393569 New group to develop passenger spaceship MSNBC http www.spaceadventures.com media releases 2006 02 348 Space Adventures Announces An Integrated Spaceport Offering Suborbital Spaceflights, Astronaut Training and Interactive Visitor Center SpaceAdventures http www.spaceadventures.com media releases 2006 02 347 Space Adventures Announces 265 Million Global Spaceport Development Project SpaceAdventures http www.fahad.com 2006 02 space adventures announces global.html Space Adventures Announces Global Spaceport Development Project In Ras Al Khaimah, UAE Fahad Inc. See also List of spaceports Mojave Spaceport Singapore spaceport Southwest Regional Spaceport spaceport Category Space Adventures Category Spaceports Category Ras al Khaimah Category Proposed buildings and structures Category Emirati space program Asia airport stub space stub rocket stub UAE geo stub ... more details
Black Horse may refer to Black horse a equine coat color . Black Horse spaceplane , a proposed winged, single stage to orbit launch vehicle Black Horse Bandit , a 1919 short Western film Black Horse Cavalry , a 19th century group of corruptionists in the New York state legislature Black Horse Pike , an historic route in New Jersey Black Horse Regiment , nom de guerre of the U.S. Army 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Black Horse and the Cherry Tree , a song by K.T. Tunstall Black Horse Pike Regional School District Black Horse, a subsidiary, trading name and the logo of Lloyds Banking Group Black Horse Comanche Black Horse a Indigenous peoples of the Americas Native American Comanche leader. one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Black Horse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Black Horse Westerns, an imprint of British publisher Robert Hale publisher Robert Hale Ltd. Blackhorse Road station on the London Underground and London Overground Overground See also Black Horse Tavern disambiguation Dark horse disambig de Black Horse ... more details
Binnie may refer to Surname Alex Binnie , Scottish footballer Alex Binnie tattoo artist born 1959 , English tattooist and printmaker Alexander Binnie 1839 1917 , civil engineer who worked on crossings of the River Thames in London Brian Binnie born 1953 , test pilot for the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne Ian Binnie born 1939 , puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada Paul Binnie born 1967 , Scottish artist working in the Japanese tradition of woodblock printmaking William Binnie architect c. 1885 1886 ? , Scottish architect William Binnie engineer 1867 1949 , British civil engineer William Harrison Binnie born 1958 , Scottish American businessman and competitive race car driver Given name Binnie Barnes 1903 1998 , English actress Binnie Hale 1899 1984 , English actress and musician Binnie Kirshenbaum born 1964 , American writer of both novels and short stories Binnie Roberts , fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders Places Binnie Peaks , twin peaks rising to 1,400 metres 4,600 ft to the north of Romerof Head in western South Georgia See also Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Binnie disambiguation Category Surnames de Binnie fr Binnie ... more details
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