Comments on: Current Strategies for Air-Breathing Rockets http://blog.nss.org/?p=2917 Blogging for the creation of a spacefaring civilization Wed, 22 May 2013 03:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dale Amon http://blog.nss.org/?p=2917&cpage=1#comment-15069 Dale Amon Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:00:01 +0000 http://blog.nss.org/?p=2917#comment-15069 Oh, and not to forget Boeing CST-100 and Atlas V... Oh, and not to forget Boeing CST-100 and Atlas V…

]]> By: Dale Amon http://blog.nss.org/?p=2917&cpage=1#comment-15068 Dale Amon Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:59:09 +0000 http://blog.nss.org/?p=2917#comment-15068 I don't know if I'd say winged vehicles are all that dominant. Of the vehicle families under test, SpaceX, Armadillo, Masten, OSC, Blue Origin are all VT; SpaceX Dragon will eventually be VL; I do not believe OSC will be a lander (and perhaps unmanned) but the other families are al VL as well. TSC/Scaled Composites SS2, Lynx and Sierra Nevada are winged; Reaction Engines is winged but still unflown and not manned even when it does. The future of Earth to Orbit operations will be a mix for now; time and the market will be the final harsh arbiters of which one is economically best. I don’t know if I’d say winged vehicles are all that dominant. Of the vehicle families under test, SpaceX, Armadillo, Masten, OSC, Blue Origin are all VT; SpaceX Dragon will eventually be VL; I do not believe OSC will be a lander (and perhaps unmanned) but the other families are al VL as well.

TSC/Scaled Composites SS2, Lynx and Sierra Nevada are winged; Reaction Engines is winged but still unflown and not manned even when it does.

The future of Earth to Orbit operations will be a mix for now; time and the market will be the final harsh arbiters of which one is economically best.

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