the atmosphere. The word "Aero" in "Common Aero Vehicle" stood for "aeroshell", not "aerospace", because the CAV was a common aerothermodynamic shell for...

the X-41 Common Aero Vehicle (CAV) and HTV-3 for the Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle (HCV). The technological demonstrator Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2)...

CAV, former automotive electrical manufacturer based in Britain X-41 Common Aero Vehicle, a classified U.S. military space plane Arts, culture and entertainment...

The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters...

in September 1944, as UM 3538. It was the first serious proposal for a vehicle which could carry a pilot and payload to the lower edge of space.[citation...

(Spacecraft) H-II Transfer Vehicle Space Shuttle program RLV-TD - an Indian spaceplane program X-37 "HOPE_X 開発から将来宇宙輸送系に向けて" [HOPE_X Lessons Learned for Future...

beyond the atmosphere. The Avatar, a reusable launch vehicle, was first announced in May 1998 at the Aero India 98 exhibition held at Bangalore. Avatar is...

went ahead to develop an initial test vehicle, Pre-X, followed the prototype named Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) and the consequential Space Rider...

role, configuration, and era X-20 Dyna-Soar X-24 NASA X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Gordon, Yefim; Gunston, Bill (2000). Soviet X-Planes. Hinkley: Midland. pp...

Niels Jeppesen and first launched in 2007 to follow on from the X-35 X-41 Common Aero Vehicle, the designation for a still-classified U.S. military spaceplane...

Research Center around 1990. It was envisaged as a lifting body re-entry vehicle similar to the Soviet BOR-4 spaceplane design. Its stated goals were to...

Pioneers, Space Adventures and the Ansari X Prize Title Sponsors, to Provide First Suborbital Spaceflight Tourism Vehicles (SpaceAdventures) New group to develop...

Reusable Launch Vehicle–Technology Demonstration Programme is a series of technology demonstration missions that has been conceived by the Indian Space...

X-39 – Reserved for USAF/DARPA program use Boeing X-40 Space Maneuver Vehicle – Testbed for X-37 guidance and flight characteristics X-41 Common Aero...

failed attempts to develop a reusable space launch vehicle. The Rockwell X-30 in the 1980s and X-33 VentureStar in the 1990s never flew because of immature...

affordable and routine access to space. Contracts for construction of the vehicle and ground infrastructure were signed in December 2020. Its maiden flight...

have keyed a crewed spaceflight program launched by an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. In November 1987, the project was approved for pre-development from 1988...

design that was under development c. 2005 by Rocketplane Kistler. The vehicle was to be powered by two jet engines and a rocket engine, intended to enable...

series of test vehicles, including the X-20 Dyna-Soar, Northrop M2-F2, Northrop M2-F3, Northrop HL-10, Martin X-24A and X-24B, and Martin X-23 PRIME. The...

illustrated. The Rockwell X-30 National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), begun in the 1980s, was an attempt to build a scramjet vehicle capable of operating like...

proposed European Space Agency (ESA) orbital spaceplane and reusable launch vehicle. The Hopper was a FESTIP (Future European Space Transportation Investigations...

SpaceShipThree In development Dream Chaser Radian One Black projects Blackstar TR-3A Black Manta X-41 Common Aero Vehicle Aurora aircraft Military flying saucers...

Bespilotnyi Orbital'nyi Raketoplan 4, "Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane 4") flight vehicle is a scaled (1:2) prototype of the Soviet Spiral VTHL (vertical takeoff...

According to 'informal sources', another hypersonic vehicle has been tested, which is equivalent to the X-43. Tengyun is a reusable spaceplane project unveiled...

spacecraft. It was formed in 1996 specifically to be a contender for the Ansari X Prize for the first non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft. The project...

co-founders left their existing positions with the company to start Agile Aero. Dan DeLong (Chief Engineer) and Aleta Jackson left the company entirely...

of G-forces. In 2008, Burt Rutan remarked on the safety of the vehicle: This vehicle is designed to go into the atmosphere in the worst case straight...

well as technology validation of atmospheric reentry. The experimental vehicle was covered in carbon–carbon, ceramic tiles, and flexible thermal insulation...

time the X-33 SSTO program was cancelled in March 2001, NASA no longer felt under pressure to develop an all-American crew transport vehicle quickly,...

subscale prototype flight vehicle called PFV01 in Abu Dhabi and begins flight tests. Radian released their latest vehicle design of Radian One to the...