• Bristol Spaceplanes (BSP) is a British aerospace company based in Bristol, England, who has designed a number of spaceplanes with sub-orbital and orbital...
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    spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes must incorporate features of both aircraft and spacecraft. Orbital spaceplanes tend to be more similar to conventional...
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    expected within a decade. The Company Bristol Spaceplanes has undertaken design and prototyping of three potential spaceplanes since its founding by David Ashford...
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    Aerospace – website American Astronautics Corporation (AERA) – website Bristol Spaceplanes Limited – website Canadian Arrow The da Vinci Project Pablo de Leon...
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  • A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight. Lists of spacecraft List...
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    Lockheed Martin X-33 (category Spaceplanes)
    system.: 47  Armadillo Aerospace Blue Origin Blue Origin New Shepard Bristol Spaceplanes Interorbital Systems Kankoh-maru List of NASA cancellations Lunar...
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  • The DARPA XS-1 was an experimental spaceplane/booster with the planned capability to deliver small satellites into orbit for the U.S. Military. It was...
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    and Starship, and Blue Origin using New Glenn. Aerospike engine Bristol Spaceplanes British Aerospace HOTOL Kankoh-maru Launch loop Lockheed Martin X-33...
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  • Daniel (13 December 2021). "Don't Buy China's Hypersonic Head-Fake. Its Spaceplanes Are Racing Ahead". Defense One. Archived from the original on 13 December...
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    landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane. The MiG 105 was nicknamed "Lapot" (Russian: лапоть, or bast shoe; the...
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  • Hermes was a proposed spaceplane designed by the French Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) in 1975, and later by the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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  • Woodrow, A.D. (2003). "Considerations for Passenger Transport by Advanced Spaceplanes" (PDF). Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 56: 118–126. Bibcode:2003JBIS...
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    Vulcan. Future flights on Ariane 6 are also proposed. Spaceflight portal Spaceplanes RLV Technology Demonstration Programme Boeing X-37 Space Rider NASA X-38...
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    XCOR Lynx (redirect from Xerus (spaceplane))
    suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL), rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development by the California-based company XCOR Aerospace...
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    prototype of the Soviet Spiral VTHL (vertical takeoff, horizontal landing) spaceplane. An uncrewed, subscale spacecraft, its purpose was to test the heatshield...
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  • Shenlong (spacecraft) (category Spaceplanes)
    Head-Fake. Its Spaceplanes Are Racing Ahead". Defense One. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021. Shats, Daniel (2021). Chinese spaceplane programs....
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    The HL-20 Personnel Launch System was a NASA spaceplane concept for crewed orbital missions studied by NASA's Langley Research Center around 1990. It was...
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    never used. After the open DynaSoar USAF program from 1957 to 1963, spaceplanes went black (became highly classified). In the mid-1960s, the CIA began...
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    The Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane, also called EADS Astrium TBN according to some sources, is a suborbital spaceplane concept for carrying space tourists...
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    HL-42 drew indirectly on three decades of experience with lifting body spaceplanes, but depended mainly on its immediate predecessor, the HL-20. Team 2...
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  • obtain aerodynamic data in the frame of the preparation of the Hermes spaceplane. One flight test was performed in 1990. The program was funded by the...
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    Silbervogel (category Spaceplanes)
    competition. When Walter Dornberger attempted to create interest in military spaceplanes in the United States after World War II he chose the more diplomatic...
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    Boeing X-37 (category Spaceplanes)
    "X-37B spaceplane completes its sixth mission, lands after nearly 30 months in orbit". 12 November 2022. Bentley, Matthew A. (2008). Spaceplanes: From...
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  • Avatar (spacecraft) (category Spaceplanes)
    presentation on the spaceplane at the global conference on propulsion at Salt Lake City, United States on July 10, 2001. Spaceplanes of comparable role...
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  • proposed C-21 spaceplane or its successor the Explorer. It would be a TSTSO (Two-Stage to SubOrbit) launch platform. The Explorer spaceplane is a suborbital...
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  • Hopper (spacecraft) (category Spaceplanes)
    Kingdom and France embarked on their own national programs to produce spaceplanes, such as HOTOL and Hermes, while attempting to attract the backing of...
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  • SpaceShip III (category Spaceplanes)
    Roman numeral III; formerly SpaceShipThree) is an upcoming class of spaceplanes by Virgin Galactic to follow SpaceShipTwo. It was first teased on the...
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    airliner. Initial work on this project had begun at Sud Aviation and the Bristol Aeroplane Company, its British counterpart. The engines for Concorde were...
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  • ago, long before the tablet was recorded and over 4500 years before the Bristol researchers' date. Bond and Hempsell have suggested that there was contamination...
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    horizontal take-off/horizontal landing, single-stage-to-orbit, fully reusable spaceplane concept called Radian One. Radian was founded in 2016. In January 2022...
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