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Takeoff and landing

Senin, 2026-01-19 23:43:34

"Horizontal Lander"), was VTHL, as was a circa-2003 derivative of the HL-20, the Orbital Space Plane concept. As of March 2011[update], two VTHL commercial spaceplanes...

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Prometheus (spacecraft)

Minggu, 2026-04-19 06:29:24

Prometheus was a proposed crewed vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting body spaceplane concept put forward by Orbital Sciences Corporation...

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Lifting body

Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:31:15

Chaser is a suborbital and orbital vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)...

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BOR-4

Sabtu, 2026-05-09 06:48:21

Rocketplane 4") flight vehicle is a scaled (1:2) prototype of the Soviet Spiral VTHL (vertical takeoff, horizontal landing) spaceplane. An uncrewed, subscale...

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Lockheed Martin X-33

Minggu, 2026-04-19 06:23:35

facility constructed on Edwards Air Force Base, and landed horizontally (VTHL) on a runway at the end of its mission. Initial sub-orbital test flights...

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OTV-1

Rabu, 2026-01-28 10:55:37

(X-37B OTV-1), an American robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral...

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Landing gear

Minggu, 2026-04-19 03:10:38

vehicle), or for spaceplanes that use the vertical takeoff, horizontal landing (VTHL) approach (e.g., the Space Shuttle orbiter, or the USAF X-37), landing gear...

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XS-1 (spacecraft)

Minggu, 2026-04-19 06:36:43

[clarification needed] The Boeing design was a vertical takeoff, horizontal landing (VTHL) craft called Phantom Express, intended to increase the nation's access to...

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Air Force Research Laboratory

Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:33:56

designation for the program once flight tests begin. The US$250,000,000 VTHL Reusable Booster System program was initiated by the USAF in 2010. In 2012...

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Reusable Booster System

Jumat, 2025-10-31 04:26:15

to 2012, to develop a new prototype vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) reusable booster and a new prototype expendable second stage to replace...

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Glossary of aerospace engineering

Jumat, 2026-04-24 09:06:21

program Space Shuttle main engine – Space Shuttle orbiter – reusable NASA VTHL spaceplane used during the Space Shuttle program (1981–2011) Space station...

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Water landing

Sabtu, 2026-03-21 15:26:35

and the spaceplanes that use the vertical takeoff, horizontal landing (VTHL) approach (e.g., the Space Shuttle, or the USAF X-37) which have landing...

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Liquid fly-back booster

Kamis, 2025-07-03 07:04:18

in French Guiana for landing. This vertical take-off, horizontal landing (VTHL) mode of operation would allow liquid fly-back boosters to continue operating...

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