Sentences with phrase «hotol spaceplane»

DARPA has chosen Boeing to design, build and test its Experimental Spaceplane, XS - 1.

Check out why the hypersonic spaceplane, called the Phantom Express, is so unbelievably cool and when it's expected to launch on its first flight.

Watch the incredible moment Richard Branson's VSS Unity spaceplane goes SUPERSONIC in Virgin Galactic's...

Han's team has designed two versions of a spaceplane that takes off vertically under its own rocket power.

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing has designed a spaceplane that can be scaled up to carry a large number of people, academy rocket scientist Lui Haiquang told the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, last week.

Big names include Virgin Galactic, whose SpaceShipTwo spaceplane will offer six passengers trips to near - space, and XCOR, whose proposed Lynx vehicle will fly a single passenger next to a pilot.

A top secret US spaceplane landed on Friday, after a record - breaking 22 months in orbit.

It seems likely, in retrospect, that the project was doomed for a variety of reasons, including the challenging reusable spaceplane design and the huge range of often conflicting demands on the craft.

Tellingly, the U.S. space program is abandoning spaceplanes and going back to Apollo - style rockets.

The cause of the deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on Friday remains unknown, but the commercial spaceplane's feathered reentry system looks to have been involved.

Powerful rocket engines could transport us at blistering speeds on spaceplanes that minimise their fuel weight in an innovative way

Derek Davis, head of the British National Space Centre, in London, has been fiercely criticised by people working in Britain's space industries for cutting the budget for one of the centre's projects to such an extent that Alan Bond, designer of the Hotol spaceplane, has been forced to look abroad for funding.

Additionally, the government thinks such a plan will draw global spaceplane operators to the UK, as well as acting as a hub for technology providers, space finance and insurance outfits and tourism firms.

As much as it seemed like a bolt from the blue, the UK spaceport plan is the result of a three - year review of spaceplanes and their potential by the UKSA, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport.

Spaceplanes are rockets after all, and will operate under different liability laws to those governing airliners.

«Areas where the UK is already strong, like small satellite technology, would benefit once spaceplane operations are established,» he says.

The spaceplane then takes off, sucks in the trail of fuel and burns it.

He suggests that an aircraft could fly in advance along the proposed trajectory of a spaceplane, leaving a trail of fuel.

The new spending document offers a call out to «high - priority projects» such as the Synergistic Air - Breathing Rocket Engine, a hypersonic, precooled engine for the United Kingdom's new spaceplane, and a supercomputer for weather forecasters.

China is even developing its own spaceplane, a «black project» called Shenlong, or «Divine Dragon.»

The world's first five spaceplanes flew within the first 50 years of human spaceflight.

The engineering test article for Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser «spaceplane» flew its long - awaited second free flight test this weekend (Nov 11, 2017) over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSB-...]

PlanRad Live takes to the road again, this time visiting the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach, California for a conversation with enthusiastic team members at Xcor Aerospace, where they are building the Lynx spaceplane, and the Zero Gravity Corporation, whose «G - Force One» plane has allowed thousands of men and women to experience weightlessness.

Spaceplanes are not a new concept, having been thought up years before the space age even began.

No spaceplane has yet -LSB-...]

Spaceplanes, spacesuits and rockets, oh my!