Sentences with word «spaceplane»

Next year Mojave, California - based XCOR Aerospace will begin flying its two - seat suborbital Lynx spaceplane.
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.
Innovative, reusable rocket engines are being developed that are so powerful, they could one day fly a suborbital spaceplane from London to Sydney in just 4 hours.
Powerful rocket engines could transport us at blistering speeds on spaceplanes that minimise their fuel weight in an innovative way
The world's first five spaceplanes flew within the first 50 years of human spaceflight.
Concepts for wholly new hybrid rocket / air - breathing engine technologies, like those pioneered by U.K. - based Reaction Engines for its still highly conceptual Skylon space vehicle, could in the next decade materialize in runway - to - runway spaceplanes that can go to space and back relatively cheaply and with very fast turnaround between flights — something like a Boeing 777 for orbital destinations.
Both single - stage spaceplanes and reusable rocket stages have their merits, Greason said, and there's no obvious reason that one method might have an economic advantage over the other.
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...
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.
So the onus is on the academy to prove this is more than a paper spaceplane, he says.
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.
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.
There are two likely contenders for the UK's first spaceplane: Virgin Galactic «s SpaceShipTwo and Xcor Aerospace «s Lynx, which are both being developed in the US.
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.
«Areas where the UK is already strong, like small satellite technology, would benefit once spaceplane operations are established,» he says.
Future spaceplanes will rely on jet engines that save on weight by sucking oxygen from the air instead of carrying it.
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.»
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.
It is stuffed with artefacts, including a small piece of SpaceShipOne, the X-Prize-winning suborbital spaceplane that now lives in the Smithsonian.
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.
US officials had remained tight - lipped about the spaceplane's exact purpose until earlier this month, when NASA revealed that it will carry nearly 100 samples of different materials on its next trip, to see how they are affected by more than 200 days in space.
Spaceplanes are rockets after all, and will operate under different liability laws to those governing airliners.
Last month's Virgin Galactic crash, albeit in a test flight, was a reminder that flying in a spaceplane is riskier than flying in an aeroplane.
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 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-...]
The engineering test article for Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser «spaceplane» flew its long - awaited second free flight test on Nov 11, 2017 over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.
Spaceplanes are not a new concept, having been thought up years before the space age even began.
A spaceplane is quite simply a vehicle that can fly as both an airplane in the atmosphere — generating lift from its wings — and as a spacecraft in a vacuum using rocket propulsion.
XCOR Aerospace proudly announced continued progress on its Lynx spaceplane, a suborbital spacecraft designed to take humans and payloads to the edge of space.
Spaceplanes, spacesuits and rockets, oh my!
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