Vehra SH suborbital manned vehicle
- Paper number
IAC-06-E3.4.07
- Author
Mr. Laurent Gathier, Dassault Aviation, France
- Coauthor
Mr. Jean-Pierre Haignere, European Space Agency/Headquarters, France
- Year
2006
- Abstract
For several years, Dassault Aviation has studied a lot of projects in the field of aerospace vehicles (Hermes, X-38, STAR-H, etc.). Today the company is also involved in future launchers studies for space agencies in cooperation with EADS (Pré-X, FLEX,..). These skills lead us to propose an additional and innovative approach in space transportation with suborbital airborned launch system (exemplified with the Vehra familly). In this paper, we consider a manned version for up to six passengers dubbed Vehra-SH. It would fly at the edge of space (above 100 km of altitude with a total weightless time of 200 s) propelled by a liquid oxygen / kerosen rocket engine. Dassault Aviation as initiating a "safety first" approach to develop the spacecraft with the technologies on the shelf. Vehra-SH would improve the suborbital spaceflight experience with airlike operations (airborne take-off and smooth landing on a runway).
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
IAC-06-E3.4.07.pdf (🔒 authorized access only).
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