Ascender Spaceplane Model Flight-Tested
Bristol Spaceplanes Ltd. is flight testing a one-fifth-scale remotely piloted version of its ``Ascender'' suborbital spacecraft to evaluate vehicle controllability issues. A full-scale Ascender demonstrator would carry two crewmembers and two passengers to the edge of space for about 2 min. of...
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