A spaceplane is a vehicle that can fly and glide like an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and maneuver like a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes...
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A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight. Lists of spacecraft List...
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Boeing X-37 (category Spaceplanes)
by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities...
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Dawn Aerospace (section Dawn Mk-II Aurora spaceplane)
greenhouse potential and nontoxic materials, as well as an uncrewed suborbital spaceplane with rapidly reusable flight characteristics. Dawn Aerospace was co-founded...
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(Sub-Orbital Re-Usable Aircraft) was a partially reusable air-launched spaceplane launch system concept designed to launch small satellites on a suborbital...
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Bristol Spaceplanes (BSP) is a British aerospace company based in Bristol, England, who has designed a number of spaceplanes with sub-orbital and orbital...
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Antonov An-225 Mriya (redirect from Mriya (spaceplane carrier aircraft))
remains unbuilt. AKS Intended to carry the Tupolev OOS air-launch-to-orbit spaceplane; a twin-fuselage design consisting of two An-225 fuselages, with the OOS...
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Skylon (spacecraft) (redirect from Skylon (spaceplane))
Skylon is a series of concept designs for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (Reaction), using SABRE...
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Dream Chaser (redirect from Dream Chaser (air-launched spaceplane))
Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane developed by Sierra Space. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space...
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XS-1 (spacecraft) (redirect from Experimental Spaceplane 1)
The DARPA XS-1 was an experimental spaceplane/booster with the planned capability to deliver small satellites into orbit for the U.S. Military. It was...
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Blackstar (spacecraft) (redirect from Blackstar (Spaceplane))
Blackstar is the reported code-name of a secret United States orbital spaceplane system. The possible existence of the Blackstar program was reported in...
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Shenlong (spacecraft) (category Spaceplanes)
pinyin: shén lóng; lit. 'divine dragon') is a Chinese reusable robotic spaceplane currently in development. Only a few pictures have appeared since it was...
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Viking/Shadow – Lockheed S is also used as a vehicle type designator spaceplanes. S-1 – DARPA (not built) The "SR" sequence is a continuation of the original...
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index serial number: 11F35 1K, construction number: 1.01) was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran program. Buran completed...
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some observers have speculated that the CSSHQ may resemble the X-37B spaceplane of the United States in both form and function. The spacecraft's first...
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sub-system of Project 921. The term 921-3 is often used for the Chinese spaceplane program.[not verified in body] The Chinese National Manned Space Program...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 (redirect from Spiral (spaceplane))
landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane. The MiG 105 was nicknamed "Lapot" (Russian: лапоть, or bast shoe; the...
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payload capacity, in addition to the 2,000 lb (910 kg) carried by the spaceplane. The module will be separated from the Dream Chaser prior to reentry and...
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Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched to a highly elliptical high Earth orbit aboard a Falcon...
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Hermes (spacecraft) (redirect from Hermes (spaceplane))
Hermes was a proposed spaceplane designed by the French Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) in 1975, and later by the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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Spacecraft (section Spaceplanes)
method of reentry to Earth into non-winged space capsules and winged spaceplanes. Recoverable spacecraft may be reusable (can be launched again or several...
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MAKS (spacecraft) (redirect from MAKS spaceplane)
MAKS Rendering of a MAKS spaceplane carried atop of an Antonov An-225 to stratosphere for launching into space Country of origin Soviet Union Operator...
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List of Buran missions (redirect from List of Buran spaceplane missions)
programme was an attempt by the Soviet Union to construct an orbital spaceplane to perform similar functions to the Space Shuttle. Similar to the Space...
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highly shaped fuselages made it difficult to fit fuel tankage. Advanced spaceplane concepts in the 1990s and 2000s did use lifting-body designs. Examples...
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1965, Robert Salkeld investigated various single stage to orbit winged spaceplane concepts. He proposed a vehicle which would burn hydrocarbon fuel while...
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proposed C-21 spaceplane or its successor the Explorer. It would be a TSTSO (Two-Stage to SubOrbit) launch platform. The Explorer spaceplane is a suborbital...
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FAST20XX (redirect from ALPHA (spaceplane))
program to develop the necessary technologies for a hypersonic suborbital spaceplane. Funding for the program was established under the European Commission's...
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Boeing X-40 (category Spaceplanes)
Space Maneuver Vehicle was a test platform for the Boeing X-37 reusable spaceplane, built by Boeing Phantom Works. It sought to test the X-37's systems in...
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grid fins, and other flight control surfaces. By modifying their shape, spaceplanes can leverage aviation mechanics to aid in its recovery, such as gliding...
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across the industry. It is currently developing the Dream Chaser spaceplane. The spaceplane was selected by NASA to provide services to the International...
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