Space Planes and X-vehicles
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Dennis R. Jenkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Research aircraft |
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Author | : Michael H. Gorn |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3030863980 |
Foreword by Dr. Roger D. Launius, Former NASA Chief Historian For the past 75 years, the U.S. government has invested significant time and money into advanced aerospace research, as evidenced by its many experimental X-plane aircraft and rockets. NASA's X-Planes asks a simple question: What have we gained from it all? To answer this question, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the X-plane’s long history, from the 1946 X-1 to the modern X-60. The chapters describe not just the technological evolution of these models, but also the wider story of politics, federal budgets, and inter-agency rivalries surrounding them. The book is organized into two sections, with the first covering the operational X-planes that symbolized the Cold War struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R, and the second section surveying post-Cold War aircraft and spacecraft. Featuring dozens of original illustrations of X-plane cross-sections, in-flight profiles, close-ups, and more, this book will educate general readers and specialists alike.
Author | : John E. Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
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Author | : David Ashford |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002-12-10 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1783261234 |
A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years. Costly launch vehicles based on ballistic missiles will be replaced by ‘spaceplanes’, using technology that exists today. In five years' time, a prototype could be built, and with a further ten years of detailed development, the design could approach airliner maturity, reducing the cost of sending people into space some one thousand times to around US$20,000.Spaceplane development has, in effect, been suppressed by entrenched thinking and short-term vested interests. But the present monopoly of large government space agencies is becoming unsupportable, and the market that understands the very real opportunities for space travel will be reaching critical mass in the near future.This book examines these issues and shows why space tourism will one day become the single largest business in space, and how astronomy and environmental science will be transformed by low-cost access making possible instruments vastly larger than those of today.
Author | : Michael Douglas Griffin |
Publisher | : AIAA |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Space vehicles |
ISBN | : 9781600861123 |
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Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2001 |
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The U.S. can no longer rely on the "space as a sanctuary" policy, initiated by the Eisenhower Administration, to continue to exploit space for economic and military advantages. The X-37 space maneuvering vehicle demonstrator is an opportunity for the U.S. to begin to develop methods to more strategically defend and control the space environment. The X-37 is the first of NASA's x-vehicles intended to demonstrate leading edge technologies in orbit. This prototype space maneuvering vehicle co-sponsored by NASA, the Air Force and the Boeing Company is being designed to achieve the goals of reducing the cost to access space from $10,000 to $1000 per pound while improving reliability. The current project is funded to build an autonomous space maneuvering vehicle with on-orbit testing scheduled in 2002, The X-37 is an unmanned space plane that can carry a payload, and can conduct missions while orbiting, loitering, or rendezvousing with objects in space and then autonomously return to earth by landing on a conventional runway. If the Air Force develops the X-37 to its full potential the system could strategically support each of the Air Force's four space mission areas of force enhancement, space support, space control, and force application. Transition of the space maneuvering demonstrator into a space control platform will require a change in national policy. Capitalizing on the lessons from NASA's x-vehicles and partnering with the commercial sector can potentially save costs and shorten the development of a viable space platform that could be used for space control. Strategic development and funded evolution of the X-37 space vehicle is an immediate, tangible step the United States can take to actively pursue a more aggressive program to respond to threats in the space arena.
Author | : Matthew A. Bentley |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009-03-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0387765107 |
Spaceplanes From Airport to Spaceport presents a coherent, lucid, and optimistic picture of the future of the near future. Space vehicles may soon take off from international airports and refuel in space. New technologies could allow flights to take off regularly between the Earth and the Moon. The technical details presented explain precisely how all this can be accomplished within the next few decades. This book also explains why the Space Tourist market could easily become the single most important factor in the mid-term future development of space transportation. In a few years it will be possible to board a spaceplane and fly into Earth orbit, and perhaps visit a space station. Later development could include refuelling in orbit to take a tour of cislunar space. The book's solid engineering foundation will be of interest to both space exploration enthusiasts and future space travelers.