Space Rider
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The Space Rider is a planned uncrewed orbital lifting body spaceplane aiming to provide the European Space Agency with affordable and routine access to space. Space Rider will have the potential to al
Artist's rendering of Space Rider from 2017 (RM on front—left, AOM behind—right)
Space Rider will use a controllable parafoil for landing, as used by the NASA X-38 in 1999.
Lifting body
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A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a li
Space Rider
…The Space Rider (Space Reusable Integrated Demonstrator for Europe Return) is a planned uncrewed orbital lifting body spaceplane aiming to provide the European Space Agency (ESA) with affordable and routine access to space. Space Rider will have the potential to allow…
US X-24A, M2-F3 and HL-10 lifting bodies
The Martin Aircraft Company X-24 built as part of a 1963-to-1975 experimental U.S. military program
Burnelli General Airborne Transport XCG-16, a lifting body aircraft (1944)
This F-15D Eagle was able to successfully maintain control and perform an emergency landing after a mid-air collision in 1983 that resulted in the loss of one of its wings, in part due to lift generated from its fuselage.