Ares spaceplane
Spacecraft · France
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Dassault Ares Spaceplane
French spaceplane. Study 1998. Small 7-meter long delta wing spaceplane, proposed by Aerospatiale, weighing 2,000 kg. Launched 2009.10.28,
One version of Ares would perform subsonic landing tests; it would be carried by an aircraft or balloon and then be released at a high altitude. A second version would be launched into orbit on a Soyuz-class expendable launch vehicle and then perform a hypersonic reentry and landing. The Ares design was merged with the Dassault Vehra to produce a single French proposal for the EXTV technology demonstrator of the ESA Future Launcher Technology Program.
Related
- Family
- Spaceplane, Suborbital
- Country
- France
- Launch Vehicles
- Ares I-X
- Launch Sites
- Cape Canaveral LC39B
- Bibliography
- 494.
- Ares I-X - .
- Nation
- USA
- Agency
- Clemson
- Spacecraft Bus
- FLTP/FESTIP
- Spacecraft
- Ares spaceplane. First flight test of the Ares/Constellation program. The Ares I-X rocket consisted of the modified Shuttle RSRM-91A solid rocket booster, a dummy Upper Stage Simulator, and a dummy Ares command module / launch abort system. It was launched from the newly modified LC39B at Kennedy Space Center to test the aerodynamics of the vehicle within the atmosphere and provide real-world data to ameliorate concerns regarding the vibration level created by the SRB for any crew in a future mission. The SRB reached 46 km altitude before descending to the Atlantic for recovery