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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
"Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S.
Air Force for a contract award to support the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experiments program. The value of the first task order is $2 million, with a contract ordering value of up to $250 million over the five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract period. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center are developing the RBS as the next generation launch vehicle that will significantly improve the affordability, operability, and responsiveness of future spacelift capabilities over current expendable launchers." See: http://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-...-system-38735/ |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
"Andrews Space, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have been awarded
contracts to design, fabricate and test systems under the reusable booster system flight and ground experiments (RBS-FGE) programme. The contracts, awarded by the US Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, are worth up to $250 million each. RBS-FGE is meant to mature technologies for a fully reusable vertical take-off, horizontal landing first stage booster system, using a liquid oxygen- fuelled combined cycle engine. The winged booster will loft the launch vehicle to the point where a second, expendable stage can fire and put the payload in orbit, while the first stage booster will return and land on a runway. Limited flight testing is due to begin by 2015." See: http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...tracts-365835/ |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
In article ea22bd34-57cc-44cd-a27e-3a981c23b5f9
@l19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com, says... 365835 Good. This is what those losers at NASA should have been doing in the '70s instead of wasting huge amounts trying to "save" manned spaceflight. Thank the Powers That Be that the Air Force has finally been unleashed again. |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:10:38 -0700, Fred J. McCall
wrote: Good. This is what those losers at NASA should have been doing in the '70s instead of wasting huge amounts trying to "save" manned spaceflight. Thank the Powers That Be that the Air Force has finally been unleashed again. Yeah, because there are no cuts to the USAF budget in the offing.... And pay no attention to the catastrophic performance of USAF in meeting budget, schedule or spec with big projects in recent history. This thing will be quietly killed before the end of 2012. Brian |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:51:07 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote: Good. This is what those losers at NASA should have been doing in the '70s instead of wasting huge amounts trying to "save" manned spaceflight. Careful, that's not too far removed from how Shuttle got started. Thank the Powers That Be that the Air Force has finally been unleashed again. Yeah, right. Is this the same Air Force that screwed up Future Imaging Architecture and National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System so badly they were both killed off by an outraged Congress in the last decade? The same Air Force that is vastly behind schedule and overbudget on its prized new F-35 fighter? The same Air Force that went down the EELV path in the name of lowering costs, but screwed up things so badly they now cost us more than their predecessors? The same Air Force that seems inexplicably unable to fairly choose a replacement tanker or Search and Rescue helicopter? This is a cool idea, but the chance of it seeing the light of day from our incompetent Air Force in the upcoming years of drastic budgets cuts is about nil. Brian |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
In article ,
says... "J. Clarke" wrote: Good. This is what those losers at NASA should have been doing in the '70s instead of wasting huge amounts trying to "save" manned spaceflight. Thank the Powers That Be that the Air Force has finally been unleashed again. Yeah, because there are no cuts to the USAF budget in the offing.... But if you look at what the Air Force wants to spend on this, it isn't much. From the article ( http://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-martin-to- demo-air-force-reusable-booster-system-38735/ ): The value of the first task order is $2 million, with a contract ordering value of up to $250 million over the five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract period. What's a quarter of a billion over five years to the Air Force? Jeff -- " Ares 1 is a prime example of the fact that NASA just can't get it up anymore... and when they can, it doesn't stay up long. " - tinker |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
In article , bthorn64
@suddenlink.net says... On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:51:07 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: Good. This is what those losers at NASA should have been doing in the '70s instead of wasting huge amounts trying to "save" manned spaceflight. Careful, that's not too far removed from how Shuttle got started. Thank the Powers That Be that the Air Force has finally been unleashed again. Yeah, right. Is this the same Air Force that screwed up Future Imaging Architecture and National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System so badly they were both killed off by an outraged Congress in the last decade? The same Air Force that is vastly behind schedule and overbudget on its prized new F-35 fighter? The same Air Force that went down the EELV path in the name of lowering costs, but screwed up things so badly they now cost us more than their predecessors? The same Air Force that seems inexplicably unable to fairly choose a replacement tanker or Search and Rescue helicopter? This is a cool idea, but the chance of it seeing the light of day from our incompetent Air Force in the upcoming years of drastic budgets cuts is about nil. Apples and oranges. You're giving examples of programs which are intended to become operational, but this project is clearly R&D along the lines of X-37B. Too bad the budget for the X-37B is classified. Jeff -- " Ares 1 is a prime example of the fact that NASA just can't get it up anymore... and when they can, it doesn't stay up long. " - tinker |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:08:23 -0500, Jeff Findley
wrote: This is a cool idea, but the chance of it seeing the light of day from our incompetent Air Force in the upcoming years of drastic budgets cuts is about nil. Apples and oranges. You're giving examples of programs which are intended to become operational, but this project is clearly R&D along the lines of X-37B. Too bad the budget for the X-37B is classified. Okay, but if they can't pull off the high-profile programs, what makes you think they'll pull off a relatively low-profile program? And they picked up X-37B from NASA, so they don't even really get credit for *that*. Anyway, I hope this bucks the trend. Brian |
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Lockheed Martin To Demo Air Force Reusable Booster System
On Dec 12, 9:34*pm, Brian Thorn wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:08:23 -0500, Jeff Findley wrote: This is a cool idea, but the chance of it seeing the light of day from our incompetent Air Force in the upcoming years of drastic budgets cuts is about nil. Apples and oranges. *You're giving examples of programs which are intended to become operational, but this project is clearly R&D along the lines of X-37B. *Too bad the budget for the X-37B is classified. Okay, but if they can't pull off the high-profile programs, what makes you think they'll pull off a relatively low-profile program? And they picked up X-37B from NASA, so they don't even really get credit for *that*. Anyway, I hope this bucks the trend. Brian air force knows big budgets are ending, this might give them the incentive to do more affordable operations |
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