Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002iaf..confe.948c&link_type=abstract
IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
Computer Science
Scientific paper
On the path to a Reusable Space Transportation System, Europe has first reviewed the gaps to fulfil. Then, a step-by-step master plan with both on-ground and in-flight tests has been drawn up with the uppermost goal to secure the development of the future European RLV. With the potential budgets and programmatics foreseeable milestones, CNES, the French Space Agency, has engaged in late 2000 a preliminary assessment of a flight test project which complies with a development timeframe of about three years. This preliminary analysis has demonstrated that a lifting testbed, dubbed Pre-X, was feasible within the assigned limits and, meantime, its technical interest has been enlightened. So, prior to a full-scale development and its integration within a European program, studies have been pursued in the way to deepen the feasibility level of the Pre-X and the goal to enforce both the project objectives and the technical definition. These tasks are performed with EADS Launch Vehicles as leading contractor and the contribution of DASSAULT Aviation, SNECMA Moteurs and Astrium SAS. This paper will first address the updated objectives of the Pre-X related to : Then, relying on these objectives and related requirements, the Pre-X current status will be extensively presented reviewing the main trades-off and results. A special attention will be paid to the mission analysis, the shape design process and the overall architecture, main subsystems and lay-out.
Chavagnac Christophe
Moulin Jacques
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