- The US Air Force's
Aerospaceplane was a
basic research project led by
Weldon Worth at the Wright-Patterson AFB
concerning the
design of ****ure recoverable...
- bureau. It was
intended to test
technologies for a single-stage-to-orbit
aerospaceplane and also the
Tupolev Tu-360
intercontinental bomber.
Development of...
- the
feasibility of
reusable boosters. This
became the
basis for the
aerospaceplane, a
fully reusable spacecraft that was
never developed beyond the initial...
-
remained level,
generally in the
range of Mach 1 to Mach 3.
During the US
aerospaceplane program,
between the 1950s and the mid 1960s,
Alexander Kartveli and...
-
explored by
General Dynamics in the 1960s as part of the US Air Force's
aerospaceplane efforts. The LACE
system was to be
placed behind a
supersonic air intake...
-
effort in a
paper study of a
variety of
spaceplane projects under their Aerospaceplane efforts of the late 1950s, but
later reduced the
scope of the project...
- was also
heavily involved with a 1960s-era Air
Force project called "
Aerospaceplane", to
design and
build an
orbital logistics vehicle a
decade before NASA...
- seen as a "natural" fit for a
winged spacecraft project known as the
Aerospaceplane. At the time the
concept was
known as LACES, for
Liquid Air Collection...
-
Project Pluto and a
liquid air
cycle engine (LACE) for the Air Force's
Aerospaceplane efforts.
Another new
product line
started with the
introduction of their...
- PROFAC-S for Surface, PROFAC-C for Orbital, PROFAC-A for
combination with
aerospaceplane making one
reusable stage to
orbit possible, etc.
Several inlets (e...
