Sentences with phrase «space plane»

Their company, Reaction Engines, Ltd., set out to develop an SSTO space plane called Skylon.

SpaceX's most recent rocket landing occurred Sept. 6 after the launch of an Air Force X-37B space plane.

Further ahead, NASA's Orbital Space Plane, planned for a 2012 launch, might be able to travel to lunar orbit, depending on the final design.

The European Space Agency has a packed year ahead to work on NASA's new Orion capsule, new contracts for Ariane rockets and a new reusable space plane

The hybrid propulsion concept was attractive enough that in the mid-1980s Britain's BAE Systems and Rolls - Royce seized on it for an SSTO space plane project called HOTOL (horizontal takeoff and landing).

The Air Force sent a secret space plane into orbit from Florida on Thursday just ahead of Hurricane Irma's expected arrival this weekend.

Founder and CEO Richard Branson unveiled the second generation Virgin Galactic space plane.

Canada might start building some towers that do just that, plus they launch space planes from the top.

Which is one reason that potential U.S. adversaries might be alarmed by the rendezvous capabilities of GSSAP and of the U.S. Air Force's highly maneuverable X-37B robotic space planes.

Tethered satellites dragged through the Earth's upper atmosphere could provide information for developing hypersonic space planes.

The European Space Agency has pushed back the target for flying the manned space plane Hermes by a further two years.

NASA's past investments developed the technology that is fueling today's commercial space race, with capsules launching to the space station and space planes jetting over the Mojave Desert [see «Blastoffs on a Budget,» by Joan C. Horvath; Scientific American, April 2004].

The Northrop Grumman / Orbital Sciences space plane could ease NASA's space - access problems, but it would not be ready for nearly a decade.

After being postponed for over a month, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is ready to launch a secretive space plane for the USAF on its third mission this coming Tuesday, December -LSB-...]

Newman's is essentially interested in both introducing new forms and examining the specter of possibilities of transferring various space planes on canvas.

Also on display are MN Special (2008), a lightweight carbon fiber bicycle designed for Biomega; EADS Astrium Space Plane prototype (2007) designed for commercial space tourism; Kelvin40 (2003), a small jet plane; Zvezdochka trainer for Nike (2004); Nickel Surfboard (2006); Ford 021C urban concept car (1999).

Extensive experience in project management design and construction of major tenant build out projects involving warm - light - shell space planing and stacking Systems Furniture This project included five - story responsible for HVAC systems design, and drafting.

In April it launched the X-37B, an unmanned, reusable space plane.

By amassing «global partnerships with 21 space agencies,» the private Dream Chaser space plane has a solid foundation and «a path to continue» forward, Mark Sirangelo, -LSB-...]

Indeed, the U.S.'s ballistic missile defense systems, its X-37B space planes and even its GSSAP spacecraft, though all ostensibly devoted to maintaining peace, could be easily repurposed into weapons of space war.

They assumed the replacement system would be the Orbital Space Plane, a concept that was essentially the same as the current Commercial Crew proposals.

Typically, the space plane lands at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Besides... don't they have a «space plane» to catch?

Other competitors include Molniya's space plane, which can be launched in midair, and an updated version of Khrunichev's TKS manned transport ship, a partially reusable unwinged capsule first designed in the 1960s.

Orbital is developing an entirely different vehicle, a space plane called Prometheus.

The space plane will land on a runway, while the rocket, after delivering its payload, will fly back to the ground like the space shuttle.

Stephen Wurst learned an important lesson while trying to build the ill - fated National Aero - Space Plane.

Powell: There have been many brilliant technological ideas — videophones, flying cars, space planes, jetpacks — that have turned out to be technically possible but not useful.

There are no ejection seats in the space planes being built by private companies like Virgin Galactic, but that may change now due to innovations developed for the extreme jump.

Creating a revolutionary jet engine that could propel a space plane to orbit affordably and routinely is a tough but seemingly achievable task

Throughout, US officials have remained tight - lipped about the space plane's exact purpose.

The space plane design is also more quickly accessible when it returns, as it can land on any commercial runway large enough for a Boeing 737 airplane, Sirangelo says, unlike a capsule landing in a potentially remote area.

But the Dream Chaser uses a lifting - body design — essentially, it is a space plane that resembles a small version of the space shuttle and, like it, can land on a runway.

The commercial space flight company sent its space plane, VSS Unity, for its first untethered test flight in two years, a step towards space tourism

While some people are eyeing up the era of the space plane, others will be looking to go retro.