Hawker Siddeley Waverider-1971
Spacecraft · UK
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British manned spaceplane. Study 1971. The Hawker Siddeley Waverider study of 1971 laid out a space vehicle with a waveriding airbreathing hypersonic first stage, and a rocket propelled, lifting body second stage.
Orbital payload was to have been 3.5 - 4 metric tons of cargo or a manned, caret-shaped waverider vehicle. In either case the second stage would be recovered from orbit separately.
Related
- Family
- European Rocketplanes, Spaceplane
- Country
- UK
- Agency
- Hawker Siddeley