• Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus SE. It is responsible for the development and manufacturing of defence and space products, and providing...
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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 like an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and maneuver like a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes...
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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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  • 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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    British aerospace industry include Airbus (through its Airbus UK subsidiary), BAE Systems (the world's fourth-largest defence contractor), Britten-Norman, GKN...
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    Aérospatiale (category 1999 mergers and acquisitions)
    with DASA and Spain's Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) to form the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), later renamed Airbus. The majority...
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    Companies portal Boeing Rotorcraft Systems Airbus Defence and Space Lockheed Martin Space Systems NewSpace Northrop Grumman "Executive Biography of Leanne...
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    spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department...
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    rocket, awards launch contract". SpaceNews. Retrieved 28 April 2020. "U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket". 8 November...
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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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    eco-friendly. Spaceflight portal Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane Boeing Sonic Cruiser HyperMach SonicStar SpaceX Starship Zero Emission Hyper Sonic...
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    mbar and 1 bar (1 atmosphere)); and be temperature-regulated (usually 20 to 24 °C (68 to 75 °F)). Crewed spacecraft include space capsules, spaceplanes, and...
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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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  • leader and 48 others. Sir Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic's new VSS Unity, a SpaceShipTwo-class rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane in Mojave...
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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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  • adequate funding was eventually secured, the SpaceLiner concept might become an operational spaceplane in the 2040s. RETALT (RETro Propulsion Assisted...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Reaction Engines (category Space programme of the United Kingdom)
    Rolls-Royce PLC and BAE Systems. Skylon is a design for a single-stage-to-orbit combined-cycle-powered orbital spaceplane. Skylon and the SABRE engine...
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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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    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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    (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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    Moon and a stepping stone for crewed missions to Mars in the 2030s. ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in...
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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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    by Airbus Defence and Space to launch EDRS-C satellite". Arianespace. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015. Clark, Stephen (7 August 2019). "SpaceX successfully...
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  • [@AJ_FI] (9 December 2021). "At 0217 UTC today Chinese hypersonic/spaceplane firm Space Transportation conducted a successful test flight of Tianxing-1...
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