The Virtual Spaceplane: A Modeling and Simulation Tool for the Manned Spaceplane Project

Man’s Place in Spaceplane Flight Operations: Cockpit, Cargo Bay, or Control Room?

This paper begins to investigate the question: “What is the proper role of humans in the operation of a military Spaceplane?” All too often, the question boils down to: “Should it be manned or unmanned?” While it’s true that some man-machine interface types require a man on-board and some don’t, this manned/unmanned oversimplification skews the true context of the issue. Therefore, this paper s...

Inserting Space Weather into a Virtual Space Environment

The Virtual SpacePlane (VSP) is a realistic prototype of the Manned SpacePlane (MSP) and simulates a number of the MSP missions in a realistic manner. To increase the realism of the space environment and space mission planning, we inserted a portrayal of space weather into the VSP’s virtual environment. In this paper we present background on the VSP project, space weather, and describe the requ...

High-elevation equatorial catapult-launched RBCC SSTO spaceplane for economic manned access to LEO

AIAA - 93 - 5162 Space Plane Concept Overview

Having considered a number of possible future space activities and analysing their implications for future launch vehicle requirements in terms of economics, technological and policy aspects by overcoming the disadvantages of the current launch system, the development of the low-cost fully reusable new space transportation system to and from lower earth orbit, as driven by the clear need for af...

Real-Time Building Information Modeling (BIM) Synchronization Using Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Cloud Computing System

The online observation of a construction site and processes bears significant advantage to all business sector. BIM is the combination of a 3D model of the project and a project-planning program which improves the project planning model by up to 6D (Adding Time, Cost and Material Information dimensions to the model). RFID technology is an appropriate information synchronization tool between the...