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🚀 L’espace en mode VTC ?
Dawn Aerospace vend son spaceplane Aurora comme on achète un jet privé.
Décollage sur piste classique, Mach 3.5, prêt en 4h.
L’orbite devient low-cost.
#NewSpace #Aurora #Spaceplane #TechDisruptive #DawnAerospace
👉 https://hellobiz.fr/2025/06/06/cest-un-avion-qui-decolle-pour-lespace-comme-un-taxi-dawn-aerospace-bouscule-le-secteur-des-lancements-spatiaux/#google_vignette

a very #British epitaph for any technology: "We failed because we ran out of money."

"Reaction Engines hoped one day its tech would power a reusable space plane"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5zg85wnlo

"Rolls-Royce said it had other priorities and the UK military has very little money."

#technology #space #SpaceFlight #HOTOL #Skylon #ReactionEngines #UK #history #SpacePlane

✈️ #Aurora will be capable of flying at very high speeds (of up to Mach 3.5 km/h) and of reaching suborbital altitudes beyond the #Karman line 🌌. #DawnAerospace stated that it expects commercial deliveries of the ‘Aurora’ to start in 📆 2027 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/dawn-aerospace-starts-accepting-orders-for-aurora-suborbital-aircraft

#spaceplane

🇫🇷 French #spaceplane startup #AndroMach announced that it had received a #CNES contract to begin testing an early prototype of its Banger v1 rocket engine. Test flights will begin in early 📆 2027 https://europeanspaceflight.com/cnes-awards-contract-to-french-spaceplane-startup

More KSP stuff. A heavy lifter SSTO that is designed to deliver large payloads into orbit. In theory it is fully IVA traversable, but some of the OPT parts don’t support freeIVA.

#space #spaceart #digitalart #muellermeier #SSTO #KSP #Kerbal #blueprint #spaceplane #krita

Fictional blueprint for a cargo SSTO (with modded parts from the game Kerbal space Programm)

"..Orbital Test Vehicle concludes seventh successful mission
"
"..X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7) .. successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, March 7, 2025 at 02:22 a.m. EST."

".. the first launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket to a Highly Elliptical Orbit."

"The seventh mission remained on-orbit for over 434 days."

https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4112259/x-37b-orbital-test-vehicle-concludes-seventh-successful-mission/

7.3.2025

#Boeing #OTV #Raumfahrt #Raumgleiter #SpaceFlight #SpaceForce #SpacePlane #USA #Vandenberg #X37B

The #x37b #spaceplane lands after its most recent mission:

#spaceforce

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/after-flying-higher-than-ever-the-us-militarys-x-37b-spaceplane-is-back-home/

Moin #Raumfahrt -Community!
Heute muss ich mal wieder auf #PolarisSpaceplaned zu sprechen kommen. Ihr erinnert euch, letztes Jahr haben sie weltweit zum ersten mal ein #LinearAerospike -Triebwerk im Flug gezündet. Jetzt haben sie von der #Bundeswehr einen Auftrag zur Entwicklung eines zweistufigen Raumflugzeugs bekommen. Da könnte etwas Wichtiges entstehen.
Hier mal ein Artikel dazu:
#Spaceplane #Forschung #Triebwerk

https://www.1e9.community/magazin/mit-diesem-raumflugzeug-von-polaris-soll-europa-spacex-überholen

#X37B #Spaceplane Shares #Earth Image For First Time As New Mission Details Emerge
The photo was captured during the ongoing seventh mission for the shadowy X-37B mini-shuttle, which has seen it enter into higher orbits. https://www.twz.com/space/x-37b-spaceplane-shares-earth-image-for-first-time-as-new-mission-details-emerge #space

US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit — https://www.space.com/space-force-x-37b-1st-photo-from-orbit-earth
#HackerNews #USSpaceForce #X37B #SpacePlane #SpaceInnovation #OrbitalDefense #SpaceTechnology

Secretive Space Plane Beams Back Photo Taken High Above Earth https://petapixel.com/2025/02/24/secretive-space-plane-beams-back-photo-taken-high-above-earth/ #highlyellipticalorbit #usspaceforce #planetearth #spaceforce #spaceplane #highorbit #Space #orbit #x37b

Sierra Space has announced that its Dream Chaser cargo spaceplane has demonstrated that it can handle payloads. #spaceplane #SierraSpace #LEO

Retro Spaceplane aces test for...

📆 2025 preview :

• #Moon 🌙 deliveries by #Astrobotic, #IntuitiveMachines and #Firefly Aerospace.
• #SPHEREx will create a map of the universe 🌌
• #ESA's 🇪🇺 #SpaceRider #spaceplane orbital test flight
• #Japan's 🇯🇵 lunar lander and micro-rover
• #Tianwen2 🇨🇳 collects samples from a #NEA ☄️
• #BepiColombo at #Mercury
• #EuropaClipper at #Mars
• #NASA’s #Lucy #asteroid flyby
• #JUICE at #Venus
https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/space-missions-coming-in-2025

• #SierraSpace #DreamChaser test mission to the #ISS https://www.planetary.org/articles/calendar-of-space-events-2025

🇪🇺 #SpaceRider's inaugural flight is currently expected in 📆 2027. This is four years ⌛ after the original Q3 2023 projection, established when the first contracts were signed in December 2020 https://europeanspaceflight.com/beyond-gravity-delivers-key-elements-of-esas-space-rider-vehicle

#ESA #Spaceplane

The Tragic Tale Of How NASA’s X-34 Space Planes Ended Up Rotting In Someone’s Backyard.

The craft were once seen as the future of cheaper, faster space access. Since then they have been reduced to backyard junk...

https://www.twz.com/26546/the-tragic-tale-of-how-nasas-x-34-space-planes-ended-up-rotting-in-someones-backyard

#NASA #History #spaceplane

The Secretive Spaceplane of the U.S. Space Force Conducts First-of-Its-Kind Maneuvers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-secretive-spaceplane-of-the-us-space-force-conducts-first-of-its-kind-maneuvers-180985425/

#technology #tech #space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spaceplane #usspaceforce #spaceforce

Secretive #X37B #Spaceplane To Use Aerobraking Maneuvers To Rapidly Change Orbit
Details showcase high maneuverability and underscore long-standing questions about its capabilities. #US #SpaceForce, to which -37Bs are assigned, announced planned orbital maneuvers as part of Orbital Test Vehicle 7 (#OTV7). “Use of the aerobraking maneuver – a series of passes using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere – enables the spacecraft to change orbits while expending minimal fuel.”
https://www.twz.com/space/secretive-x-37b-spaceplane-to-use-aerobraking-maneuvers-to-rapidly-change-orbit