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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 …Al Draper of the AFFDL began working with a select group of aerospace firms on hypersonic…
  • p. 6 …Air Force was working toward an operational capability analogous to its B-S2 fleets: flight operations…
  • p. 9 …Individuals working on these projects were convinced that the industrial capability existed to design and fabricate…
  • p. 10 …Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (AFFDL) 5 and the work of the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company…
  • p. 18 …Al Draper and his team, together with Bob Masek's team at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, worked…
  • p. 29 …Astronautics Company engineers and model builders began working on an alternative approach for the leading edges…
  • p. 30 …a colleague, Ying-Ming Lee, who then worked at MSE in Butte, Montana, showed the author…
  • p. 33 …The termination of the first aerospace plane halted this work, but John Ahern 15 continued his…
  • p. 41 …Air Force requirements we were working with, these TAV were piloted and therefore had retractable crew…
  • p. 44 …to space changed, and most of this work was abandoned and discarded. One of the key…
  • p. 50 …The work in the mid 1960s by a number of aerospace companies set the stage for…
  • p. 54 …Louis part of the team prepared a work breakdown structure for servicing and maintaining an Air…
8 March 2010
ICOD: 1 December 2009
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