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Recognizing the diversity of the recent backgrounds of an audience who would be interested in the X-15, I thought I would attempt an abstract definition of the X-30. Basically, the emphasis is on research (fig. 1). We envision an airplane, a machine that is capable of exploring technology that is critical to single stage to orbit and to ...
The performance goals of the NASP program require an aero-propulsion system with a high effective specific impulse. In order to achieve these goals, the high potential performance of air-breathing engines must be achieved over a very wide Mach number operating range.
The NASP/X-30 will be the first U.S. manned aircraft to be powered with hydrogen. Flight testing the X-30 powered with liquid and/or slush hydrogen along with its high speed capability will present unique challenges to the flight test community.
The X-30 single stage to orbit (SSTO) vehicle utilizes an air-breathing primary propulsion system and takes off and lands horizontally on a conventional runaway. The technologies under development include high specific strength, high temperature capable materials and structures, ramjet/scramjet propulsion systems, hypersonic aerodynamics and ...
NASP will study the X-30's takeoff from a runway under its own power, acceleration to high Mach number on the basis of airbreathing propulsion, emergence into LEO, reentry into the earth atmosphere, and descent to a powered horizontal landing.
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The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), or X-30, is a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle that is designed to takeoff and land on conventional runways. Research in aeroelasticity was conducted by NASA and the Wright Laboratory to support the design of a flight vehicle by the national contractor team.
The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), or X-30, is a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle that is designed to takeoff and land on conventional runways. An artist concept of a NASP vehicle is shown in figure 1. A vehicle that accomplishes the mission requires a minimum-weight structure that is capable of withstanding large temperature changes.
This paper focuses on presenting various atmospheric constraint statistics based on assumed NASP mission phases using established natural environment design, parametric, threshold values.
Drawing on the extensive technology base available in the mid 1980’s, the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) program began and became the focus for maturing and applying this scramjet technology to a proposed flight research vehicle capable of trans-atmospheric flight.