Was VentureStar a bad design or simply ahead of its time?
The real objective is lowering cost through reusability. In my opinion, the VentureStar approach made the unnecessary and suicidal leap that reusability required single-stage-to-orbit. It does not. It was single-stage-to-orbit that killed VentureStar, …
Who owns the IP developed in the VentureStar program?
2018年11月4日 · The VentureStar program including the prototype X-33 cost upwards of $1 billion, surely some of that went into still meaningful intellectual property. Who would own it now? NASA provided the funding, so did they have ownership after the cancellation of the program?
Did VentureStar technology lead anywhere? - Space Exploration …
VentureStar seemed to make a bit of progress before being cancelled in 2001. Did any of the technology developed for this program lead anywhere? For example, its aerospike engines or high-tech fuel tanks?
rockets - From a strictly engineering standpoint, would …
In looking at the questions here and here, I'm wondering - was the VentureStar platform doomed from the start (in ways nobody could foresee), or was it only the cooling problems with aerospike engi...
How many SSTO projects have ever existed with realistic goals and ...
2018年10月13日 · Lockheed Venturestar; SSTO using an aerospike engine. A subscale demonstrator, the X-33 was built but never flew due to problems with a carbon fiber tank for hydrogen, the tank's irregular shape made it very difficult to build. $1B spent. X-33 (left) and Venturestar (right):
What are these weird things on the McDonnell Douglas X-33?
2023年7月10日 · The Lockheed Martin X-33 project ran until the cancellation of both the X-33 and VentureStar in 2001. McDonnell Douglas had already been working on the DC-X project since 1991 with NASA funding. The DC-X used vertical takeoff and landing, and was powered by four RL-10 liquid hydrogen engines and used four gaseous hydrogen oxygen thrusters ...
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VentureStar was a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launch system proposed by Lockheed Martin with the ...