• Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus SE. Formed in 2014 in the restructuring of European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS), Airbus SE comprises...
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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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    A spaceplane is a vehicle that can fly and glide as an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and function as a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes...
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  • will be the Airbus A321 that will be purchased from Air India and modified by DRDO as per military standards. Airbus Defence and Space and Tata Advanced...
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  • Tu-144 SpaceLiner Boeing 2707 Orient Express X-30 follow-on Boeing Sonic Cruiser HyperMach SonicStar Reaction Engines A2 Skylon Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane...
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    contract". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020. "U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to launch on a SpaceX Falcon...
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  • Surrey, now fully owned by Airbus Defence & Space, that builds and operates small satellites. SSTL works with the UK Space Agency and takes on a number of tasks...
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  • 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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    Aérospatiale (category 1999 mergers and acquisitions)
    DASA and Spain's Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) to form the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), later rebranded Airbus. The majority...
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    robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department...
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  • Avatar (spacecraft) (category Spaceplanes)
    a robotic single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation. The mission...
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    Companies portal Boeing Rotorcraft Systems Airbus Defence and Space Lockheed Martin Space Systems NewSpace Northrop Grumman Brock, Joe; Shepardson, David;...
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    owned by the Airbus Defence and Space division of Airbus. Thales Group including its UK-based Thales Air Defence (Belfast), Thales Avionics and Thales Optronics...
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  • British Aircraft Corporation (category Former defence companies of the United Kingdom)
    subsequently harnessed on later efforts, most prominently the re-usable HOTOL spaceplane project of the 1980s. Development of the TSR-2 was one of the company's...
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    eco-friendly. Spaceflight portal Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane Boeing Sonic Cruiser HyperMach SonicStar SpaceX Starship Zero Emission Hyper Sonic...
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    Richard Branson (category People in the space industry)
    Air and Space Port in California, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism. In March 2000, Branson was knighted at...
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    connection with the Avatar spaceplane concept by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation. In 2006 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...
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  • Reaction Engines (category Space programme of the United Kingdom)
    SKYLON Reusable Spaceplane (PDF). 7th Appleton Space Conference (RALSpace). Hempsell, Mark (September 2013). Progress on SKYLON and SABRE (IAC-13.D2...
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    mbar and 1 bar (1 atmosphere)) and be temperature-regulated (usually 20 to 24 °C (68 to 75 °F)). Manned spacecraft include space capsules, spaceplanes, and...
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    Automated Transfer Vehicle (category European Space Agency spacecraft)
    or elements of its technology, were studied by both the ESA and Airbus Defence and Space, the principal manufacturer of the vehicle. However, on 2 April...
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    April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2011. "Skynet 5 X-band". Airbus Defence and Space. 2014. Archived from the original on 16 May 2014. Jonathan Amos...
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  • adequate funding was eventually secured, the SpaceLiner concept might become an operational spaceplane in the 2040s. RETALT (RETro Propulsion Assisted...
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    through Eurospace with voting rights are: Airbus Defence and Space, ArianeGroup, OHB System, and Thales Alenia Space. Associate members are the entities that...
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    in Florida for launch on reused SpaceX rocket". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 18 January 2017. "Airbus Defence and Space signs a new satellite contract with...
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    Otherwise, rocket aircraft include spaceplanes, like SpaceShipTwo, for travel beyond the Earth's atmosphere and sport aircraft developed for the short-lived...
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    (NASA) and the USAAF became the United States Air Force (USAF). Other organizations such as the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the...
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    2009. Retrieved 20 August 2015. "ESA Commissions Airbus Defence and Space as Prime Contractor for US Space Capsule Orion Service Module". spaceref business...
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    Antonov (category Defence companies of Ukraine)
    even more for the Soviet spaceplane programme logistics, creating the An-225 "Mriya" in 1985. "Mriya" was the world's largest and heaviest aeroplane. The...
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    and Ariane 6, a medium-to-heavy-lift rocket. Arianespace is a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, a joint venture between Airbus and Safran. European space launches...
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  • progress in reusability with secretive second flight of suborbital spaceplane". SpaceNews. Retrieved 26 August 2022. "Out To Launch Newsletter – August"...
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