24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.1.1 (I.L.)

HIGH SPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

M. Yanagihara, T. Munenaga
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

Keywords: reusable space transportation system, flight experiment, demonstrator, HSFD

The High-Speed Flight Demonstration (HSFD) project is the latest in a series of flight experiments in a research program into reusable space transportation systems being conducted by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The project consists of two phases which use sub-scale demonstrators based on the HOPE-X (H-II Orbiting Plane, Experimental) winged re-entry vehicle configuration.

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