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New Mexico Spaceport Authority executive director Rick Homans (right) talks with Branson, Richardson, and Garver.
Raven SSTO - Iteration 12, Single Stage to Orbit - Space Plane (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Link to Raven www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Link to Discovery www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/discovery-218.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
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But there is a road to glory
somehow hidden in the past
behind the gold, behind the treasure
behind the mask
Then comes a team of four white horses
and a lady with night-black hair
and she looks to be such a fine one
but is she really there
I've gotta knooooooooow
I've gotta knooooooooow
ROAD TO GLORY by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Virgin Galactic's White Knight II " Mothership Eve" making her public debut at EAA Airventure 2009. This was a real treat for someone whose childhood heroes were George Jetson and James T. Kirk. Now I want to see her with Spaceship II attached, or even better during a launch....
Tidbits: The Wing spar is 140 feet long making it the longest single carbon
composite aviation component ever manufactured.
Despite the size and unique configuration it is designed to be fully aerobatic.
After Plane Crazy Saturday they are preparing to move the White Knight Two by connecting a tow bar to both fuselages.
Patricia Grace Smith, Buzz Aldrin and Peter Diamandis are ready to cut the Ribbion to start the 2006 xPrize Cup
Raven SSTO - Iteration 12, Single Stage to Orbit - Space Plane (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Link to Raven www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Link to Discovery www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/discovery-218.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
spaceplane, ssto, hypersonic, hypersonics, rocket, ksc, cape canaveral, space coast, space force, smallsat, orbital debris, satellite service, hydrogen, graphene, satellites, Space Tech, Reusable Rockets, Sustainable Space, RocketEngine, Spaceflight, darpa, air force research lab, afwerx, defwerx, nasa, aviation, airbus, engineering, defense, icao, aiaa, nro
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Galactic
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Aevum Inc
NASA
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AFOSR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
AFWERX
United States Air Force
Air Force Research Laboratory
Firefly Aerospace
ESA - European Space Agency
SpaceX
Axiom Space
Airbus
Airbus Defence
BAE Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lockheed Martin
Raytheon Technologies
Rolls-Royce plc
National Reconnaissance Office
The Aerospace Corporation
Collins Aerospace
BlackSky
United Launch Alliance
TÉLÉSAT
ONE.Web
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
Dassault Aviation
United States Space Force
Blue Origin
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Arianespace
Raven SSTO - Iteration 12, Single Stage to Orbit - Space Plane (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Link to Raven www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Link to Discovery www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/discovery-218.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
spaceplane, ssto, hypersonic, hypersonics, rocket, ksc, cape canaveral, space coast, space force, smallsat, orbital debris, satellite service, hydrogen, graphene, satellites, Space Tech, Reusable Rockets, Sustainable Space, RocketEngine, Spaceflight, darpa, air force research lab, afwerx, defwerx, nasa, aviation, airbus, engineering, defense, icao, aiaa, nro
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Galactic
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Aevum Inc
NASA
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AFOSR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
AFWERX
United States Air Force
Air Force Research Laboratory
Firefly Aerospace
ESA - European Space Agency
SpaceX
Axiom Space
Airbus
Airbus Defence
BAE Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lockheed Martin
Raytheon Technologies
Rolls-Royce plc
National Reconnaissance Office
The Aerospace Corporation
Collins Aerospace
BlackSky
United Launch Alliance
TÉLÉSAT
ONE.Web
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
Dassault Aviation
United States Space Force
Blue Origin
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Arianespace
Not the real deal unfortunately, but this Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 still drew plenty of attention at Farnborough 2012.
Vms Eve sits in the hangar preparing to be unveiled to the world. Mojave, July 08. Credit Herb Lingl