Thursday 8 November 2012

ASTRIUM SPACE JET

EADS Astrium's suborbital HTOL vehicle is a spaceplane designed to carry four passengers 100 km into space, where they will experience three minutes or more of weightlessness during the 90 minute trip.
The Astrium space jet will take off and land conventionally from a standard airport using its jet engines. At about 12 km altitude, a rocket engine takes over to boost the vehicle's altitude to approximately 100 km. After atmospheric re-entry, the jet engines are again restarted for landing.

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