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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency and dated 8 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It gives a historical and technical review of how to reach space and return. It covers hypersonic gliders, air-breathing and rocket propulsion, thermodynamics and materials, and launch options. It argues that reliable, schedulable access to low Earth orbit is mainly a hardware and propulsion problem rather than a technology one.
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UNCLASSIFIED//ECA: QFFllil.t.l:: '1181!! 8HLY was contained within CONUS, demonstrating a significant maneuver capability. If a glider carries a fuel reserve, it can be reaccelerated to a recoverable-range glide speed. A typical circuit pauern for inirial tesrint of a hypersonic Nasp-type vehicle Flight-test ground track for hypersonic cruise vehicle Figure 42. Hypersonic Decelerating Descending Turns are Wide But Within a Reasonable CDNUS Area if Mach 12 or Less But where is our space infrastructure? Forty years after Apollo, why have we advanced so little (as illustrated in Figure 43)? Like the pioneers' Conestoga wagons, most of our trips to LEO are one way, and when we do return, we do so with little more than the people we took to space. There is no evidence that any Conestoga wagons ever returned to St. Louis or St. Joseph, Missouri, from which most departed; rather, most were used as building materials on the West coast. 38 UNCLASSIFIED/1«F81it 8FFIIIAI:: '1181! &••1::Y
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