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FLIGHT TESTING
SpaceShipOne glides to next stage
Scaled Composites is pushing
ahead with flight testing the
SpaceShipOne after completing the
second manned glide test of its
X-Prize contender last month.
The B...
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 ... DoD in
early October.
A third investigation has also
been launched within the DoD to
determine how details of the
whistleblower allegations
became public.
TECHNOLOGY GUY NORRIS / LOS ANGELES
SpaceShipOne breaks
sound barrier...and a leg
Supersonic aircraft reaches Mach 1.2 but runs off Mojave runway on landing
SpaceShipOne, the Scaled Com
posites low-cost suborbital demon
strator, br...
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 ...a
and infrared spectrometer.
Based on analysis of Spirit's
touchdown, NASA is fine-tuning
plans for the 25 January landing of
the second rover, Opportunity.
TESTING MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / MOJAVE
SpaceShipOne undergoes repairs
Scaled Composites is not making
any changes to its SpaceShipOne
after the suborbital vehicle suffered
a gear collapse at the end of its last
flight on 17 December, ...
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 ...y twin afterburning
General Electric J85-GE-5 engines,
the 28.4m (93ft)-span aircraft can
seat three people and climb to over
53,000ft (16,100m), says the Burt
Rutan-led company.
The three-seat SpaceShipOne
rocket stage features the same cock
pit and systems as the White
Knight, including avionics, electrics
and environmental control system.
After release from the White Knight
at 50,00...
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 ...EADLINES
SPACEFLIGHT STEPHEN TRIMBLE / WASHINGTON DC & DAVID LEARMOUNT / LONDON
Rutan and Virgin plan tourist trips
Scaled Composites lands five-vehicle deal for SpaceShipOne, but major design changes may be needed
Burt Rutans SpaceShipOne team
enters this week with a newly
minted licensing deal for five vehi
cles, a chance to claim the $10 mil
lion Ansar...
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 ...s rotary engine from
Mazda's RX-8 sports car.
ROCKET MOTOR ROB COPPINGER / LONDON
SpaceDev wins more USAF cash
to develop small launch vehicle
SpaceDev, developer of the engine
for Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne sub
orbital spaceplane, has been
awarded $1.5 million by the US Air
Force to continue development of a
new four-stage small launch vehicle.
The award will fund the building
and hot-...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
PRIVATE SPACEFLIGHT ROB COPPINGER / LONDON
Rutan's tourism vision
includes orbiting hotel
One-man version of SpaceShipOne may be next stage in development of space holidays
A one-person version of Scaled
Composites' SpaceShipOne that
reaches an orbit of 130km (81
miles) to rendezvous with an orbit
ing h...
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issued with the US Federal
Aviation Administration's first
licence to perform manned sub
orbital rocket flights, writes
Graham Warwick. The first in a
series of lest flights by the com
pany's SpaceShipOne was
believed to be imminent as Flight
International went to press.
The FAAs Office of
Commercial Space Transport
ation issued the licence on 1
April, approving "a sequence of
sub-o...
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SPACEFLIGHT
Rutan set for
suborbital
attempt
Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites
plans to attempt the first non
government spaceflight on 26
June with a suborbital flight of its
privately funded SpaceShipOne
to an altitude of 330,000ft
(100,000m). If the flight is suc
cessful, Scaled plans a bid to
win the $10 million Ansari
X-Prize, which requires two
flights within two weeks with the ...
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 ...arallel aerospace subsidy dispute
processes launched in 1996.
Briefing
X-Prize secured
PRIVATE SPACEFLIGHT Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites won the
$10 million Ansari X-Prize on 4 October with its SpaceShipOne rocketplane,
funded to the tune of $20 million by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Former
US Navy pilot Brian Binnie completed the required second of two flights of
SpaceShipOne to exc...
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 ...ing votes -
I'm against unrestricted in-flight
mobile telephone use.
Peter Johnson
Gloucester, UK
Rutan's edge Training routes
Several correspondents have tried
to belittle the achievements of
SpaceShipOne. Peter Johnson
(Flight International, 19-25 October)
is typical of these when he com
pares the missions of NASA's
International Space Station supply
flights with SpaceShipOne's trip ...
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 ...vertically
glide back to land horizontally. The
Streaker engine, using solid rubber
and liquid nitrous oxide, is scaled
up from SpaceDev's hybrid rocket
motor for Scaled Composites' sub
orbital SpaceShipOne.
"Looking at the X-34's dimen
sions and our Streaker core booster,
they do fit nicely," says chief execu
tive Jim Benson. "Offering [the
Dream Chaser] as a CEV is an
option." The Dr...
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 ...oks for
ward to "revisiting the issue", but
did not endorse Inhofe's definition.
Scaled Composites, which flew a
suborbital mission with Mike
Melvill at the controls on 21 June,
plans to launch SpaceShipOne on
29 September and 4 October. A
third flight is scheduled in case one
fails to reach the required 100km
(62 miles) altitude.
Rutan has suggested he might
attempt to win the X-Prize...
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 ...ites
making good progress flight testing its two-stage sub-orbital vehicle Flight
International, 29 ApriM May).
Rutan said at the show that captive testing of the 7,700kg (17,0001b)
White Knight/SpaceShipOne combination began late last month, and that
testing of the second stage's specially developed hybrid rocket motor is pro
gressing well.
"We had one test firing of 45s a couple of weeks...
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 ...echnologies-built WoridView satel
lites, with resolutions down to 0.25m (10in), late in 2005. NIMA hopes to award
a similar NextView contract to competitor Space Imaging.
Flight-test hitch hinders SpaceShipOne
SPACE Scaled Composites' suborbital spacecraft SpaceShipOne encoun
tered its first significant flight test problem on 23 September during its third
glide flight over Mojave, California...
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 ... contract covers the first flight in 2007 followed by four
additional launches, beginning in 2008. SEE BERLIN SHOW REPORT P14-18
X-Prize contender scales new heights
TEST FLIGHT Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne reached an altitude
of 212,000ft (64,600m) on 13 May, on the third rocket-powered flight of the
company's contender for the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Mojave, California-
based Scaled ...
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 ...tators, a pair like
Branson and Rutan could be what it takes to
blast commercial space travel through the still
considerable technical and legal barriers that
exist as naturally as gravity does.
SpaceShipOne, the product of Rutan's
Scaled Composites, has completed two sub
orbital trips so far, with the most recent last
week. The bad news is that both times the
craft has been dogged by ins...
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 ...ext week
Pilot training
David Learmount looks at the
controversial issue of pilot flight
upset training, cited as a possible
factor in the 2001 AA587 Airbus
A300 crash in New York. Plus: after
SpaceShipOne's breakthrough,
will red tape strangle the sub
orbital space tourism industry?
About the cover
The C-27J - a Lockheed Martin and Alenia joint
venture - flies over the Alps before ser...
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 ...UMBER 4914 VOLUME 164 23 DECEMBER 2003 - 5 JANUARY 2004
This week
NEWS
Headlines
4 SpaceShipOne breaks sound
barrier and a leg.
Investigation clears Air 9000
5 Pentagon delays E-1OA program me.
Air Canada picks jets
6 Bell 407 re-enters service.
NetJets places Hawker order
7 ...
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 ....
Snecma on track for privatisation
Technology
24 GlobalFlyer prepares for take-off.
NASA wake-vortex tests detect
variety of aircraft
Spaceflight
25 NASA tells Mars Spirit to head for hills.
SpaceShipOne undergoes repairs
REGULARS
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44 Straight & Level
45 Letters
48 Classified
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