Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Lockheed Martin X-33 was a proposed uncrewed, sub-scale technology demonstrator suborbital spaceplane that was developed for a period in the 1990s. The X-33 was a technology demonstrator for the VentureStar orbital spaceplane, which was planned to be a next-generation, commercially operated reusable launch vehicle.
The experiment sought to provide flight data to help Lockheed Martin validate and tune the computational predictive tools used to determine the aerodynamic performance of the Lockheed Martin X-33 lifting body and linear aerospike engine combination and to lay groundwork for a future reusable launch vehicle. [1]
VentureStar releasing a spacecraft. VentureStar was a single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch system proposed by Lockheed Martin and funded by the U.S. government. The goal was to replace the Space Shuttle by developing a re-usable spaceplane that could launch satellites into orbit at 1/10 of the cost.
Boeing X-32 – Joint Strike Fighter Program technology demonstrator; Lockheed Martin X-33 – Unmanned scale demonstrator for VentureStar single stage to orbit spacecraft; Orbital Sciences X-34 – Reusable launch vehicle testbed; Lockheed Martin X-35 – Joint Strike Fighter Program technology demonstrator, developed into F-35 Lightning II
Sony's launch line-up for its next-gen console is officially bigger than Microsoft's. Today Sony announced 33 titles for the PlayStation 4 launch window, compared to 23 for the Xbox One. The PS4 ...
Notable single stage to orbit concepts include Skylon, which used the hybrid-cycle SABRE engine that can use oxygen from the atmosphere when it is at low altitude, and then using onboard liquid oxygen after switching to the closed cycle rocket engine at high altitude, the McDonnell Douglas DC-X, the Lockheed Martin X-33 and VentureStar which ...
Just two weeks after a bruising presidential election, the race to lead the Democratic Party has begun in earnest, with Minnesota Democratic party chair Ken Martin and former Maryland Gov. Martin ...
The Rocketdyne XRS-2200 was an experimental linear aerospike engine developed in the mid-1990s for the Lockheed Martin X-33 program. [1] [2] [3] The XRS-2200 engine's powerpack (Turbomachinery and Gas Generator) was derived from the Rocketdyne J-2 engine, the upper stage engine of the Saturn V moon rocket developed under the Apollo Program in the 1960's.