Russians at work on military spaceplane

"Russian Space Forces researchers are
working on an unmanned reusable
spacecraft similar to the US Air Force's
Boeing X-37 orbital test vehicle, the head
of the armed forces unit dedicated to
military space operations has revealed.

Oleg Ostapenko, speaking just weeks
after the end of the X-37B's maiden,
220-day mission, said: "Something has
been done along these lines, but as to
whether we will use it, only time will tell.""

See:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...paceplane.html

On Feb 2, 11:43*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:52 AM, wrote:



Oleg Ostapenko, speaking just weeks
after the end of the X-37B's maiden,
220-day mission, said: "Something has
been done along these lines, but as to
whether we will use it, only time will tell.""

He may have been reffering to the BOR spaceplanes:http://www.buran-energia.com/bor/bor-desc.php

Pat

How long ago was this? They'd better sell the plans
to China.

Putin's Bear is mainlining oil like heroin; whereas,
the Dragon is on the rise....................Trig

On 2/2/2011 8:52 AM, wrote:


Oleg Ostapenko, speaking just weeks
after the end of the X-37B's maiden,
220-day mission, said: "Something has
been done along these lines, but as to
whether we will use it, only time will tell.""

He may have been reffering to the BOR spaceplanes:
http://www.buran-energia.com/bor/bor-desc.php

Pat

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:43:07 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Oleg Ostapenko, speaking just weeks
after the end of the X-37B's maiden,
220-day mission, said: "Something has
been done along these lines, but as to
whether we will use it, only time will tell.""

He may have been reffering to the BOR spaceplanes:
http://www.buran-energia.com/bor/bor-desc.php

Which is the basis of not one, but two commercial US spacecraft...
SNC's Dream Chaser and OSC's Prometheus.

Brian

wrote in message
...
"Russian Space Forces researchers are
working on an unmanned reusable
spacecraft similar to the US Air Force's
Boeing X-37 orbital test vehicle, the head
of the armed forces unit dedicated to
military space operations has revealed.



Hopefully the Russians won't copy the "Boeing"
insignia too, and forget to replace it with "Energia"
before they roll it out to the public.


s

On 2/2/2011 3:38 PM, Brian Thorn wrote:
He may have been reffering to the BOR spaceplanes:
http://www.buran-energia.com/bor/bor-desc.php

Which is the basis of not one, but two commercial US spacecraft...
SNC's Dream Chaser and OSC's Prometheus.

And HL-20: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-20_P..._Launch_System
As to why it also looked like the Dove out of Doppelganger and had the
same type of swing-up wings is a good question:
http://davidszondy.com/future/doppelganger/dove.htm

Pat

On Feb 2, 10:28*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 2/2/2011 3:38 PM, Brian Thorn wrote:

He may have been reffering to the BOR spaceplanes:
http://www.buran-energia.com/bor/bor-desc.php

Which is the basis of not one, but two commercial US spacecraft...
SNC's Dream Chaser and OSC's Prometheus.

And HL-20:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-20_P..._Launch_System
As to why it also looked like the Dove out of Doppelganger and had the
same type of swing-up wings is a good question:http://davidszondy.com/future/doppelganger/dove.htm



Ooooo, a classic.

On 2/3/2011 7:06 AM, Schiffner wrote:

And HL-20:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-20_P..._Launch_System
As to why it also looked like the Dove out of Doppelganger and had the
same type of swing-up wings is a good question:http://davidszondy.com/future/doppelganger/dove.htm



Ooooo, a classic.

Well, the things could crash like no one's business, that's for sure. :-D

Pat