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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. 5 …When asked about space access at the time, a group of Aerospace Corporation V
  • p. 6 …The United States assigns projects to accomplish technology tasks so the flow of production- ready hardware…
  • p. 7 …parts reused a few times. Thus, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union/Russia has…
  • p. 8 …The sensor array provides real-time information to the control system that can maintain the correct…
  • p. 12 …Whatever goes into orbit must enter the atmosphere many times if it is to be a…
  • p. 13 …that would minimize the waiting time in orbit to return to the continental United States (CONUS…
  • p. 15 …At that time, with the large sea-recovery fleets, ballistic capsules were the only entry vehicles…
  • p. 20 …At the time, the launch vehicle would have been a Martin Titan IIIC. Had an engine…
  • p. 21 …At the International Space Station orbital inclination, the orbital waiting time for a shuttle-class glider…
  • p. 26 …The stagnation heat transfer was 25 times the reference value. This technique, when calibrated with the…
  • p. 32 …Some time ago, a model showed up on the desk of a now-Boeing employee that…
  • p. 33 …22 Unfortunately, India at the time did not have the manufacturing skill and methods to make…
  • p. 34 …The hydrogen required a volume about 5 times greater than a 6: 1 LOX/hydrogen propellant…
  • p. 42 …time, but in 1964 it was considered possible both in the United States and in the…
  • p. 44 …In a very short time, however, the path the United States took to space changed, and…
  • p. 46 …one-time missions with no semblance of an infrastructure. Neither the United Kingdom nor the United…
  • p. 51 …7 times a year for 15 years and a 100-flight operational life. The spacecraft and…
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  • p. 53 …the pressure of the air impacting the vehicle-is about 10 times greater than the entry…
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