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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Space Access Where We ve Been And Where We Could Go
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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency and dated 8 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It gives a historical and technical review of how to reach space and return. It covers hypersonic gliders, air-breathing and rocket propulsion, thermodynamics and materials, and launch options. It argues that reliable, schedulable access to low Earth orbit is mainly a hardware and propulsion problem rather than a technology one.
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- p. 4 …Model 176 in the McDonnell Douglas Hypervelocity Impulse Tunnel .... 18
Figure 18. FDL-7C/D, Model…
- p. 10 …Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (AFFDL) 5 and the
work of the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company…
- p. 11 …The thermally
integrated, air-breathing, combined-cycle configuration concept is derived from the
McDonnell Douglas (St…
- p. 12 …the AFFDL at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC), and the Lockheed…
- p. 13 …Configuration 4 was a product of cooperation between the AFFDL (Alfred Draper) and
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics…
- p. 14 …Neumann)
and McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (Robert Krieger) to reduce the drag of
hypersonic gliders. Based…
- p. 15 …And the MRS family configurations were based
on a McDonnell Douglas modified version of the FDL…
- p. 18 …Al Draper and his team, together with Bob Masek's team at McDonnell Douglas
Astronautics, worked…
- p. 19 …studies that were part of the McDonnell Douglas TAV (transatmospheric vehicle) effort;
that vehicle was powered…
- p. 20 …Figure 12 compares the FDL-7C/D and the McDonnell Douglas Model 176. The Model
176…
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- p. 29 …As a result, a small team
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- p. 42 …So both Lockheed Aircraft and
McDonnell Douglas proposed a self-sustained operational system using recoverable
lateral…
- p. 44 …One of the key elements of the
McDonnell Douglas TAV concept was a
detachable nose section…
- p. 51 …Variable-geometry lifting body, Model 176, McDonnell Douglas.
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