Sentences with phrase «suborbital rocket planes»

Project PoSSUM's executive director, Jason Reimuller, says suborbital rocket planes are scheduled to launch from Alaska in 2018.

Unlike commercial planes, which can use the lower atmosphere's oxygen to give their fuel systems a boost, suborbital rocket planes use liquid oxygen tanks to compensate for the thin air and get the thrust they need.

PoSSUM plans to use XCOR Aerospace's suborbital rocket plane Lynx; two people fit in its flight pod.

Not exact matches

Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan captured the Ansari X Prize in 2004 by lofting his manned, reusable rocket plane SpaceShipOne into space, but that was a suborbital flight requiring about 2 percent of the energy needed to reach and maintain orbit.