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Aerospaceplane

US Air Force study of winged spacecraft

The US Air Force's Aerospaceplane was a basic research project led by Weldon Worth at the Wright-Patterson AFB concerning the design of future recoverable

Aerospaceplane

Space Shuttle

Partially reusable launch system and space plane

the feasibility of reusable boosters. This became the basis for the aerospaceplane, a fully reusable spacecraft that was never developed beyond the initial

Space Shuttle

Space_Shuttle

Scramjet

Jet engine where combustion takes place in supersonic airflow

remained level, generally in the range of Mach 1 to Mach 3. During the US aerospaceplane program, between the 1950s and the mid 1960s, Alexander Kartveli and

Scramjet

Tupolev Tu-2000

Soviet hypersonic aircraft

This Soviet equivalent to the US X-30 single-stage-to-orbit scramjet aerospaceplane began development in 1986 " Tu-2000 ", astronautix.com, Retrieved 24

Tupolev Tu-2000

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Spaceplane

Spacecraft capable of aerodynamic flight in atmosphere

effort in a paper study of a variety of spaceplane projects under their Aerospaceplane efforts of the late 1950s, but later reduced the scope of the project

Spaceplane

SABRE (rocket engine)

Proposed hybrid ramjet and rocket engine

explored by General Dynamics in the 1960s as part of the US Air Force's aerospaceplane efforts. The liquid air cycle engine (LACE) system was to be placed

SABRE (rocket engine)

SABRE_(rocket_engine)

Alexander Kartveli

Georgian-American aircraft engineer (1896–1974)

was also heavily involved with a 1960s-era Air Force project called "Aerospaceplane", to design and build an orbital logistics vehicle a decade before NASA

Alexander Kartveli

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North American DC-3

NASA Space Shuttle design candidate

Flight Research Center (Edwards), and even a single-stage-to-orbit Aerospaceplane was also proposed. From then on, the entire program was beset with in-fighting

North American DC-3

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Marquardt Corporation

Historical manufacturer of ramjet engines

Project Pluto and a liquid air cycle engine (LACE) for the Air Force's Aerospaceplane efforts. Another new product line started with the introduction of their

Marquardt Corporation

Marquardt_Corporation

Propulsive fluid accumulator

Self-filling orbital rocket fuel depot

PROFAC-S for Surface, PROFAC-C for Orbital, PROFAC-A for combination with aerospaceplane making one reusable stage to orbit possible, etc. Several inlets (e

Propulsive fluid accumulator

Propulsive_fluid_accumulator

Liquid air cycle engine

Concept of hybrid atmospheric jet engine

seen as a "natural" fit for a winged spacecraft project known as the Aerospaceplane. At the time the concept was known as LACES, for Liquid Air Collection

Liquid air cycle engine

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