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Japan’s winged reusable small rocket plans to take off and land like airplane
A Japanese-led venture called Space Walker aims to build Japan’s first private spaceplane, the Eco Rocket. The company was present at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 ...
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Japan firm plans to take on SpaceX with winged reusable ‘rocket’ spaceplane
A Japanese-led venture called Space Walker aims to build Japan's first private spaceplane, the Eco Rocket. The company was present at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, where a ...
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From Earth to Space – and back again
In this method, the reusable stage flies back to Earth in a controlled ... In the case of ReFEx, a winged glider is carried by a sounding rocket into the upper atmosphere at more than five times the ...
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ReFEx – Vertical take-off, horizontal landing
It forms the tip of a specially modified two-stage, Brazilian-made VSB-30 sounding rocket. To avoid stability problems ... is a technology demonstrator for future winged, reusable stages. This ...
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Stratolaunch’s air-launched test vehicle goes supersonic in its first powered flight
The company’s mammoth airplane deployed a winged test vehicle for its first rocket-powered flight. Stratolaunch’s single-use TA-1 test vehicle blazed a trail for future reusable hypersonic ...
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Japan firm plans to take on SpaceX with winged reusable ‘rocket’ spaceplane
A Japanese-led venture called Space Walker aims to build Japan's first private spaceplane, the Eco Rocket. The company was present at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, where a ...