evolved into the Orbital Space Plane Program and the Next Generation Launch Technology Program. Future versions of the Orbital Space Plane would have been...
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cancellation) Orbital Space Plane Program One effort in the direction of space transportation was the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) program, initiated in...
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Boeing X-37 (redirect from Boeing's space plane)
2004. Until 2019, the program was managed by Air Force Space Command. An X-37 first flew during a drop test in 2006; its first orbital mission was launched...
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proposed to provide access to space after the shuttle were the Lockheed Martin X-33, VentureStar, the Orbital Space Plane Program, and Ares I launcher. For...
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is divided into two sections: the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) assembled by Roscosmos, and the US Orbital Segment (USOS), assembled by NASA, JAXA, ESA...
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The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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Constellation, Orbital Space Plane Program, and Artemis program. The Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle was a study by NASA to turn the Space Shuttle launch stack...
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design improvements to HL-20 by Orbital Sciences that were done some years ago as part of NASA's Orbital Space Plane program. Whereas the HL-20 was a pure...
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Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body. It is expressed as the angle between a reference plane and the orbital...
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exploration missions in space. This program was evolved into the Orbital Space Plane Program and the Next Generation Launch Technology program in November 2002...
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drawing board. Spaceflight portal Comparison of orbital launch systems Non-rocket spacelaunch List of orbital launch systems List of private spaceflight companies#Crew...
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Spaceplane (redirect from Space plane)
and planned orbital vehicles launch vertically on a separate rocket. Orbital spaceflight takes place at high velocities, with orbital kinetic energies...
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intersection between orbital plane and reference plane. Any three distinct points on an ellipse will define the ellipse orbital plane. The plane and the ellipse...
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have a higher orbital velocity. For orbital rendezvous to occur, both spacecraft must be in the same orbital plane, and the phase of the orbit (the position...
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Dream Chaser (redirect from Sierra_Space_Dream_Chaser)
Chaser orbital test vehicle was under contract to be launched on an initial orbital test flight, using an Atlas V rocket, from Kennedy Space Center in...
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Starlink (redirect from Proliferated Low Earth Orbit program)
(340 mi) orbital altitude. These satellites would effectively operate in a third orbital shell, a 550 km (340 mi) orbit, while the higher and lower orbits at...
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in addition to its lunar exploration goals. Orion superseded the Orbital Space Plane, which was specifically designed for ISS crew rotation. In 2009,...
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Rockwell X-30 (redirect from National Aero-Space Plane)
demonstrator project for the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), part of a United States project to create a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spacecraft and passenger...
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Boeing Starliner (redirect from Crew Space Transportation 100 Starliner)
the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth-orbit destinations. Developed by Boeing under NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), it consists...
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co-orbital anti-satellite, it is hard to believe that the major players in space will fail to notice the deployment of “research” satellites. Space warfare...
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spacecraft called SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, in conjunction with Scaled Composites to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to...
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Spaceflight (redirect from Difference between sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights)
the first orbital satellites and has reached the Moon and permanent human presence in space around Earth, particularly with the use of space stations....
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developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary...
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require. In 1979, NASA founded the Orbital Debris Program to research mitigation measures for space debris in Earth orbit. During the 1980s, NASA and other...
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near-equatorial orbit is an orbit that lies close to the equatorial plane of the object orbited. Such an orbit has an inclination near 0°. On Earth, such orbits lie...
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Buran programme (redirect from Shuttle Buran program)
into orbit by the spacecraft. Smaller rocket engines on the craft's body provided propulsion in orbit and de-orbital burns, similar to the Space Shuttle's...
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operated by China Manned Space Agency. Tiangong is a modular design, with modules docked together while in low Earth orbit, between 340 and 450 km (210...
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NASA (redirect from NASA Applied Sciences Program)
Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, executing a full orbital spaceflight. NASA's first orbital spaceflight was conducted by John Glenn on...
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Orbiter is a space flight simulator program developed to simulate spaceflight using realistic Newtonian physics. The simulator was released on 27 November...
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In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital (/ˈɔːrbɪtəl/) is a function describing location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function...
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