#spaceplanes — Public Fediverse posts

Chinese spaceplane releases object into orbit, according to commercial space surveillance

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/chinese-spaceplane-releases-object-into-orbit-according-to-commercial-space-surveillance/

#Germany is weighing investments ranging from spy satellites and #SpacePlanes to offensive #lasers under a 35 billion € ($41 billion) 💰 #military space spending plan https://www.reuters.com/science/germany-eyes-lasers-spy-satellites-military-space-spending-splurge-2026-02-03/

🇮🇳 It is proposed to develop Transportable/Mobile #LaunchSystems that can operate from ground/ aerial/ sea-based platforms. The system should be able to change from transportable position to ‘Launch ready position” in not more than 60 minutes. #India has also tested a series of reusable #spaceplanes https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4849/1

Might be silly, but hey, why not? It's been a while since I delved into spaceflight any...maybe I should return to that topic sometime. 😌

My old, simple, but hopefully nicely atmospheric piece "Two generations of spaceplanes".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #illustration #sketch #spaceplanes #spacecraft #spaceflight

America’s SuperSecret Spaceplane the X-37B

#Atlas #Boeing #China #ChineseSpaceStation #CommercialSpace #Defense #DepartmentOfDefense #Earth #Energy #Falcon9 #FalconHeavy #Materials #Military #NASA #Navigation #Nuclear #Rockets #Russia #Satellites #Science #SpaceForce #SpaceShuttle #SpaceStation #Spacecraft #Spaceflight #Spaceplanes #SpaceX #Technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesSpaceForce #SatelliteApplications #SpaceEconomy #SpaceLogistics #SpaceSegment #Upstream

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/04/22/americas-supersecret-spaceplane-the-x-37b/

"Making #European 🇪🇺 #spaceplanes a reality" - While a multi-million-euro new investment in #POLARIS would be significant for the company, the opaque nature of this investment and the vehicles with which it was executed leave us with more questions than answers. https://europeanspaceflight.com/polaris-spaceplanes-secures-multi-million-euro-investment/

#POLARIS #Spaceplanes #aerospike powered demonstrator testing between September and December https://europeanspaceflight.com/polaris-to-begin-testing-fourth-spaceplane-demonstrator-from-september

This baby should have been the successor to the Space Shuttle. Sure, SSTO wasn't practical, but this same sort of airframe, launched on an off-the-shelf Atlas V? Would have worked great, and been the coolest and sexiest spacecraft of all time. The public would have *loved* it.

Image is late 1990s NASA concept art of the McDonnell Douglas X-33.

#spacecraft #spaceflight #history #alternatehistory #thoughts #spaceplanes

My piece "Two generations of spaceplanes", making the subsonic vs hypersonic optimized spaceframes look charming I think.

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #spaceships #spaceflight #spaceplanes #spacecraft #sketch #drawing

Presidential survival in surprise nuclear war has focused on bunkers deep under the White House, but why not rapid escape instead: a rocket?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/05/23/deep-underground-launch-center/

This post's featured image is "Don't look back" by me (yes, it's just a quick-and-dirty drawing of my idea).

#nuclearwar #apocalypse #civildefense #WorldWarIII #armageddon #nuclearstrategy #strategy #technology #aircraft #spaceflight #spaceplanes

Behind its unassuming mini-shuttle image, the category of lifting bodies is home to some of history's coolest and most futuristic spacecraft.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/05/20/catching-a-lift/

This post's featured image is a NASA rendering of the McDonnell Douglas concept for the X-33, a high-performance lifting body.

#history #technology #worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #alternatehistory #spaceplanes #spaceflight #futurism #spacecraft