Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : High-speed aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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National Aero-space Plane
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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ISBN:
Category : High-speed aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : High-speed aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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National Aero-Space Plane: A Technology Development and Demonstration Program to Build the X-30
Author: GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS DIV.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) Program is a $3.3 billion joint Department of Defense (DOD)/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) technology development and demonstration program to provide a technological basis for future hypersonic flight vehicles by developing enabling technologies. The program plans to build and test the X-30 experimental flight vehicle to validate these technologies. The X-30 is being designed to take off horizontally from a conventional runway, reach hypersonic speeds of up to Mach 25 (25 times the speed of sound), attain low earth orbit, and return to land on a conventional runway. This report describes the NASP Program and provides a status of the X-30's technological development.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) Program is a $3.3 billion joint Department of Defense (DOD)/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) technology development and demonstration program to provide a technological basis for future hypersonic flight vehicles by developing enabling technologies. The program plans to build and test the X-30 experimental flight vehicle to validate these technologies. The X-30 is being designed to take off horizontally from a conventional runway, reach hypersonic speeds of up to Mach 25 (25 times the speed of sound), attain low earth orbit, and return to land on a conventional runway. This report describes the NASP Program and provides a status of the X-30's technological development.
National Aero-Space Plane: A Need for Program Direction and Funding Decisions
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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The presidentially directed NASP Program is a joint Department of Defense (DoD)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) technology development and demonstration program. The program's goal is to provide the technological basis for future space launch and hypersonic flight vehicles by developing critical or enabling technologies, such as the scramjet engine. DOD and NASA intended to demonstrate these technologies by building and testing the X-30, a manned experimental flight vehicle that is to be capable of single-stage-to-orbit (ssto) flight. The concept is to develop a vehicle that can take off horizontally from a runway; reach hypersonic speeds of up to 25 times the speed of sound (Mach 25); and attain low earth orbit, without the use of external booster rockets or propellant tanks. The program currently consists of three phases. Phase I (1982 to 1985), which preceded the formal initiation of the program, evaluated the feasibility and technical concept for an aerospace plane. Phase II (1985 to 1994) is a technology development and maturation phase. The program is in the final segment of phase II, which is intended to develop the critical technologies and manufacturing processes, build and test specific structural articles, and test a subscale engine to demonstrate the propulsion system's concept. A decision was to be made in September 1993 based on cost and technical maturity on whether to proceed into phase III, which involves designing, building, and testing the X-30. However, funding constraints and technical concerns have caused DOD and NASA to reconsider the timing of this decision and to restructure the current contract and associated technical efforts.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The presidentially directed NASP Program is a joint Department of Defense (DoD)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) technology development and demonstration program. The program's goal is to provide the technological basis for future space launch and hypersonic flight vehicles by developing critical or enabling technologies, such as the scramjet engine. DOD and NASA intended to demonstrate these technologies by building and testing the X-30, a manned experimental flight vehicle that is to be capable of single-stage-to-orbit (ssto) flight. The concept is to develop a vehicle that can take off horizontally from a runway; reach hypersonic speeds of up to 25 times the speed of sound (Mach 25); and attain low earth orbit, without the use of external booster rockets or propellant tanks. The program currently consists of three phases. Phase I (1982 to 1985), which preceded the formal initiation of the program, evaluated the feasibility and technical concept for an aerospace plane. Phase II (1985 to 1994) is a technology development and maturation phase. The program is in the final segment of phase II, which is intended to develop the critical technologies and manufacturing processes, build and test specific structural articles, and test a subscale engine to demonstrate the propulsion system's concept. A decision was to be made in September 1993 based on cost and technical maturity on whether to proceed into phase III, which involves designing, building, and testing the X-30. However, funding constraints and technical concerns have caused DOD and NASA to reconsider the timing of this decision and to restructure the current contract and associated technical efforts.
Aerospace Plane Technology
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Aerospace Plane Technology
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781568060590
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Focuses on aerospace plane technology efforts in Japan, since it is developing technologies and conducting feasibility studies for various concepts of operational aerospace planes. Australia is included because it supports technology development efforts through national research and the use of its test facilities. Contains 23 charts, tables and projected plane drawings, and a 17-page glossary of terms.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781568060590
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Focuses on aerospace plane technology efforts in Japan, since it is developing technologies and conducting feasibility studies for various concepts of operational aerospace planes. Australia is included because it supports technology development efforts through national research and the use of its test facilities. Contains 23 charts, tables and projected plane drawings, and a 17-page glossary of terms.
Aerospace Technology
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Aeronautical laboratories
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautical laboratories
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Transportation, Bibliography of GAO Documents, January 1985-December 1988
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. RCED.
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Category : Transportation and state
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : Transportation and state
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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World Directory of Aerospace Vehicle Research and Development
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780941375160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780941375160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, controls
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.