This is the AF's new spaceplane, the XS-1 Phantom Express

>>8942199
a computer rendering can put stuff into orbit.

>>8942268

Thats how advanced Boeing is you stupid SpaceX shill

>>8942199
>a 3,000 lbs payload (one American)
Equivalent to two europeans btw.

>>8942199
nu-space faggots BTFO - the Spacecraft

>>8942199
It's just a rendering

>>8942406
It's probably going to be a big step backwards from what SpaceX has flying by the time this flies (if ever), but this single-engine reusable lower stage is pretty much exactly what NASA should have done after the Apollo Program, instead of the grossly overambitious shuttle they did build for their first attempt.

The orbital payload is the same mass as the Mercury capsule. After the reusable booster is providing cheap, frequent flights to space, it should be possible to build a reusable upper stage that can carry one or two passengers to orbit.

>>8942199
You missed the most important goal of the project: it should fly ten times in ten days.

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>>8942199
ORBITAL RING
WHEN
http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-II.pdf

>>8943639
I think you're underestimating Boeing and over estimating Space-X. If all goes well the XS-1 will be flying at the end of the decade and I don't think Space-X will be able to match the planned turnaround time for XS-1 for at least a decade.

>>8942199
>Aerojet Engines
>Yay we stay alive

>>8943773
>I think you're underestimating Boeing and over estimating Space-X
Boeing's been in this business for a long time, and they've been consistently disappointing. Their Delta IV was the loser of the EELVs, a program which on the whole was a failure to compete effectively.

>If all goes well the XS-1 will be flying at the end of the decade
>I don't think Space-X will be able to match the planned turnaround time for XS-1 for at least a decade.
If all goes well Falcon 9 will match the planned turnaround time for XS-1 next year, with order-of-magnitude higher capacity. They may have a reusable upper stage not much later.