... spaceport, such as Oklahoma Spaceport, has the necessary infrastructure to accommodate horizontal take-off and landing spaceplanes – fully or partially reusable launch vehicles designed predominantly for short flights. This method of launch is used...
... necessitating interstellar travel for solutions.” After a 780-day top secret mission, the US Air Force X-37B spaceplane landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on 27 October 2019. The purpose of its mission has...
... the United States spaceports than spend time and money developing spaceport infrastructure and applying for spaceplane certification in Europe. Private spaceport operations for suborbital Edge of Space Flight Experiences, as well as small satellite...
..., waste and toxicity; that was unscalable and unsustainable, Josh is helping bring Dawn’s highly reusable suborbital spaceplane and high-power, sustainable propulsion products to market in a bid to change this. Josh spends his spare time...
.../HTPB (Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene) hybrid rocket motors capable of four restarts powered the SpaceShipOne suborbital spaceplane for 90 seconds. Although other formulations were trialled, serious combustion instability issues on firings longer...
... There are still issues of how to classify and register truly hybrid craft such as single-stage-to-orbit spaceplanes and what happens in respect of the liability of spaceflight participants for accidents or injury on board a suborbital vehicle. These...