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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. 3 …Performance Hypersonic Glide Aircraft .......................................... 10 Figure 9. NASA Langley Wing-Body Configuration WB-004 with Critical…
  • p. 6 …flight operations when required or "on demand." After NASA was assigned vi UNCLASSIFIED/ ,<F9A. QFFI&IAk…
  • p. 12 …NASA Ames and NASA Langley were also generating hypersonic configurations, but NASA's views on hypersonic…
  • p. 13 …This resulted in configurations with sharper leading edges and smaller nose radii than found in NASA…
  • p. 14 …Comments by Bill Dana, the NASA pilot who flew the X-15 and the X-24A…
  • p. 15 …Air Force's high-performance lifting body was competing with NASA's modest-performance wing body…
  • p. 18 …drag ratio limits glide range Figure 9. NASA Langley Wing-Body Configuration WB-004 With Generally…
  • p. 25 …and heat pipe leading edges (demonstrated at NASA Langley in 1967-68), the temperatures of the…
  • p. 29 …Louis, and NASA Langley, it never failed. The leading edge was tested in NASA Langley's…
  • p. 32 …However, before it was funded, NASA had started the space shuttle campaign, and the Air Force…
  • p. 50 …Summary; McDonnell Aircraft Company Report B831 for NASA Manned Spacecraft Center; contract NAS-9-3562; August…
  • p. 51 …Apollo capsule, Rockwell. • HL-10 lifting body, NASA Langley. • Wing body, X-20 derivative, Boeing. • Variable…
  • p. 52 …The closest study to respond to these findings was the NASA-sponsored HyFAC studies executed by…
  • p. 55 …Landing Ellipses for (from left) Apollo Capsule, NASA Ames M2/F2, USAF X-20 DynaSoar, FDL…
  • p. 56 …5 Buck, M.L., Zima, W.P., Kirkham, F.S. & Jones, R.A., "Joint USAF/NASA…
8 March 2010
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