Space and science fiction Archive HOTOL - British "shuttle" 80
In 1982, the indefatigable Alan Bond (it was mentioned in an article about the starship "Daedalus") began work on a promising project jet engine. At the same time, under the influence of American success "Shuttle", a British engineer Robert Parkinson of the company British Aerospace, proceeded to draft a reusable spacecraft. The next year, Bond patented his design, designated private space flight RB454, and the Ministry of Defence immediately sheds project classified as "top secret". Bond joined forces and developed a draft Parkinson aerospace systems private space flight later called HOTOL - Horizontal Take-Off and Landing (horizontal takeoff and landing). Apart from the possibility yourself take off and land the ship hardly used fuel and liquid oxygen as the main component, which will significantly improve crew safety. Instead, powerplant private space flight HOTOL extract oxygen from the air. In sum, the use of motor Bond promised big gains in mass and several large commercial load. Rise HOTOL ship carried "an aircraft" with special guides. Designed for this purpose acceleration "sledge", which moved the system to the speed of the ship broke up several times the sound, and then passed into HOTOL coast on propulsion engines RB454. After this "sled" down on a parachute and they could be used again. Once the ship passed into the vacuum system switches private space flight to the backup power fuel tanks with a small supply of liquid oxygen. According to the calculations of designers, HOTOL could orbit about 7 tons of payload at the cost of each flight is not more than 5 million pounds sterling ( ) - in this respect, the British ship was much better than the American private space flight counterpart. Received official approval HOTOL program was supported by the government, which allocated from the budget of 2 million . Project task to be performed at the company's British Aerospace in cities Warton (Warton), Filton (Filton) and Stivneydzh (Stevenage). private space flight Study, which lasted more than two years to bear fruit, but in 1989 the government refused further funding. The reason for this was the policy of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who sought as much as possible to reduce costs from the state budget, even to the detriment of its scientific development. HOTOL continue to develop under the guidance of a foreign customer was not possible because private space flight of privacy engines RB454. Nevertheless, in the early 1990s., When the "iron curtain" fell and opened up new prospects private space flight for the development of rocket technology in collaboration with the design offices of the Soviet Union, Robert Parkinson decided to change the project. Since RB454 engines, private space flight the situation looked bleak, he decided to replace them with conventional rocket engines Soviet-built. Of course, the rise of independent now could not walk and talk, so running HOTOL had done with the carrier aircraft based on the An-225 "Mriya". The total weight of this design was 250 tons with a payload of 4.5 tons. Despite the good prospects to replace "Buran" and, finally, to withdraw into space the first British ship reusable, this project also failed to get the necessary support. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not allow the new Russian government to invest sufficient funds to develop the system HOTOL - AN-225, and in the UK again considered spending private space flight on a project Parkinson superfluous. As a result, in 1992 the project private space flight was finally closed and became part of history. Nevertheless, the design team worked on HOTOL during the last five years, has created his own company, private space flight Reaction Engines Ltd, operated and produced in its design, useful in the creation of a new reusable spacecraft Skylon.
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In 1982, the indefatigable Alan Bond (it was mentioned in an article about the starship "Daedalus") began work on a promising project jet engine. At the same time, under the influence of American success "Shuttle", a British engineer Robert Parkinson of the company British Aerospace, proceeded to draft a reusable spacecraft. The next year, Bond patented his design, designated private space flight RB454, and the Ministry of Defence immediately sheds project classified as "top secret". Bond joined forces and developed a draft Parkinson aerospace systems private space flight later called HOTOL - Horizontal Take-Off and Landing (horizontal takeoff and landing). Apart from the possibility yourself take off and land the ship hardly used fuel and liquid oxygen as the main component, which will significantly improve crew safety. Instead, powerplant private space flight HOTOL extract oxygen from the air. In sum, the use of motor Bond promised big gains in mass and several large commercial load. Rise HOTOL ship carried "an aircraft" with special guides. Designed for this purpose acceleration "sledge", which moved the system to the speed of the ship broke up several times the sound, and then passed into HOTOL coast on propulsion engines RB454. After this "sled" down on a parachute and they could be used again. Once the ship passed into the vacuum system switches private space flight to the backup power fuel tanks with a small supply of liquid oxygen. According to the calculations of designers, HOTOL could orbit about 7 tons of payload at the cost of each flight is not more than 5 million pounds sterling ( ) - in this respect, the British ship was much better than the American private space flight counterpart. Received official approval HOTOL program was supported by the government, which allocated from the budget of 2 million . Project task to be performed at the company's British Aerospace in cities Warton (Warton), Filton (Filton) and Stivneydzh (Stevenage). private space flight Study, which lasted more than two years to bear fruit, but in 1989 the government refused further funding. The reason for this was the policy of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who sought as much as possible to reduce costs from the state budget, even to the detriment of its scientific development. HOTOL continue to develop under the guidance of a foreign customer was not possible because private space flight of privacy engines RB454. Nevertheless, in the early 1990s., When the "iron curtain" fell and opened up new prospects private space flight for the development of rocket technology in collaboration with the design offices of the Soviet Union, Robert Parkinson decided to change the project. Since RB454 engines, private space flight the situation looked bleak, he decided to replace them with conventional rocket engines Soviet-built. Of course, the rise of independent now could not walk and talk, so running HOTOL had done with the carrier aircraft based on the An-225 "Mriya". The total weight of this design was 250 tons with a payload of 4.5 tons. Despite the good prospects to replace "Buran" and, finally, to withdraw into space the first British ship reusable, this project also failed to get the necessary support. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not allow the new Russian government to invest sufficient funds to develop the system HOTOL - AN-225, and in the UK again considered spending private space flight on a project Parkinson superfluous. As a result, in 1992 the project private space flight was finally closed and became part of history. Nevertheless, the design team worked on HOTOL during the last five years, has created his own company, private space flight Reaction Engines Ltd, operated and produced in its design, useful in the creation of a new reusable spacecraft Skylon.
This recording was made at Thursday, July 30 @ 17:45 in the category spaceplane. You can also leave your comments on the RSS 2.0. You can leave comments or trackbacks do with your site.
"Apollo" "Prometheus" "Redstone" private space flight "Proton" "Union" A-4 Alien Apollo-18 Babylon 5 Dyna Soar ESA Lockheed Lockheed-Martin McDonnell Douglas MOL NASA Redspace SDI Space Jockey Space Shuttle TransHab Wernher von Braun Victor Gerard Filippsky Gagarin About O'Neil Moon Mars ISS N-1 N1-L3 Stamps Ridley Scott SDI USA USSR Sigourney Weaver Fiction Film spaceplane moonwalker space suit "Apollo" "Nostromo" "Space Shuttle" Recent Entries Space News June 2014 Acheron??? Cosmonautics Day on stamps of the USSR. 1970-1991 largest satellite in the world Cosmonautics Day on stamps private space flight of the USSR. 1957-1969 April 12, 2014 Azerspace-1 - Azerbaijan decided to keep ... Activities Redspace Time-Space-Man Games fantasy genre spaceplane private space flight Kosmoflot spaceship Muses
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