The report provides information on: Expendable Launch Vehicle Industry (Athena; Atlas; Delta; Minotaur; Pegasus; Taurus; Titan and Zenit); ELV Development Efforts: Aquarius - Space Systems/Loral; Eagle S-series - E'Prime Aerospace Corporation; Eagle Flier - SpacePlane Systems; Land Launch - The Sea Launch Company, LLC, and SIS; LV-1 - Rocket Propulsion Engineering Company; Scorpius Family - Microcosm, Inc; SLC-1 - The Space Launch Corporation; Sounding Rockets; Black Brant; Oriole; Terrier-Orion. Reusable Launch Vehicles: Government RLV Development Efforts; Space Shuttle; Orbital Space Plane. Next Generation Launch Technology; RASCAL. Commercial RLV Development Efforts: X Prize Contenders- SpaceShipOne - Scaled Composites; Black Armadillo - Armadillo Aerospace; Rocketplane XP - Rocketplane Limited, Inc; Other Commercial RLV Efforts: Falcon 1 - Space Exploration Technologies Corporation; Falcon 5 - Space Exploration Technologies Corporation; K-1 - Kistler Aerospace Corporation; Pathfinder - Pioneer Rocketplane; Xerus - XCOR Aerospace. Other Commercial RLV Concepts. Enabling Technologies (Hypersonics; Hybrid propulsion; Liquid engines) and Spaceports (Federal, Non-Federal; and Proposed Non-federal spaceports).
U.S. Commercial Space Transportation Developments and Concepts: Vehicles, Technologies, and Spaceports, 2004
2004
82 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Unmanned Spacecraft , Manned Spacecraft , Research Program Administration & Technology Transfer , Space transportation , Commercialization , Reusable launch vehicles , Expendable launch vehicles , Spaceports , Research and development , Space planes , Spacecraft launching
AIAA-2004-5860 The New Commercial Spaceports
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