This report presents a brief description of one of the more interesting and significant aerospace developments displayed at the Paris Air Show for 9-18 June 1989. The HERMES is the ESA supported reusable manned spaceplane. The HERMES has undergone a drastic redesign since last year to meet mission requirements and those arising from the capabilities of the Ariane 5 heavy lift launch vehicle. The most significant change to HERMES is that it has gone from a self-contained vehicle to a space vehicle consisting of three separate elements of which two are disposable after each flight. These three elements are: The HERMES spaceplane, consisting of a three-crewmember cabin and a pressurized volume divided into a payload section and an area for crew habitability; HERMES resource module, adaptable to missions and jettisoned by the spaceplane before atmospheric reentry; and HERMES propulsion module, used to inject the HERMES spaceplane and resource module into its transfer orbit.


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    Title :

    French Spaceplane: HERMES Update


    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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