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. 3 …NASA Langley Wing-Body Configuration WB-004 with Critical Areas for Wing Bodies Identified ........................................................................... 11 Figure…
p. 12 …NASA Ames and NASA Langley were also generating hypersonic configurations, but NASA's views on hypersonic…
p. 13 …dihedral angle taib 9 X-24A NASA Langley round body, high dihedral angle tails t () Star…
p. 18 …1,1lii s,11.~r :--1 AS A Langley \Vi 1111-Cv linder "" - Complex curved TPS…
p. 25 …heat pipe leading edges (demonstrated at NASA Langley in 1967-68), the temperatures of the nose…
p. 29 …Louis, and NASA Langley, it never failed. The leading edge was tested in NASA Langley's…
p. 51 …capsule, Rockwell. • HL-10 lifting body, NASA Langley. • Wing body, X-20 derivative, Boeing. • Variable-geometry…

8 March 2010
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