Planetspace update

[js117]

Planetspace update link http://www.planetspace.org/lo/uav.htm



Silver Dart
PlanetSpace has for many years now been working on its own Silver Dart, named after the famous Canadian aircraft. To explore the flight characteristics of the lifting body design two matching quarter scale Silver Darts will fly this year as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with Canadian pilots at the controls.



Our 0.25 Silver Darts are turbojet powered all metal construction research vehicles flown from a mobile flight deck located in a launch control trailer. Each Silver Dart is capable of 300 + knots with retractable custom built undercarriage and flight control system.



One Silver Dart, 0.25-B is designed to accommodate rocket propulsion and will test rocket plume and aerodynamic interactions at the base of the vehicle.



Check back later this year for flight video and pictures from the

 

[js117]

Making SPACE For You
PlanetSpace announced today it has added the Space Exploration division of The Boeing Company to its existing teammates, Alliant Techsystems and Lockheed Martin Corporation on the proposed solution to NASA for the Commercial Resupply Services to the International Space Station.

The link

http://www.planetspace.org/lo/index.htm

 

[MeteorWayne]

I have merged this post into the previous thread. Please do not start a new topic for each update, just add it to the existing thread.

Thanx, Wayne

 

[astc]

was just reading about them, before your post.

They do have strong partners