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	RLV Design
		Moreover, an RLV requires heat tiles on its underbelly to withstand the friction of reentry.
		Landing an RLV on a runway is complex and dangerous.
		It may be possible to parachute land an RLV, but an RLV is much larger than the small capsules of the Apollo era, so the parachutes would be massive and deploying them tricky.
	www.g2mil.com /RLV.htm (2160 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Commercial Space Transportation Reusable Launch Vehicle and Reentry Licensing Regulations
		Proposed Scope of RLV Mission and Reentry Licensing Although the FAA proposed to incorporate both launch and reentry authorizations in a single license that would authorize an RLV mission, it remains necessary to differentiate between activities that are licensed by the FAA and those that are not covered by FAA licensing authority.
		Given that RLVs are still in conceptual and developmental stages, the FAA considers it premature to impose standards other than those necessary to protect the safety of persons and property on the ground, in airspace or on orbit.
		RLVs that can be controlled more precisely should exhibit smaller dispersion patterns along their trajectory because of the operator's ability to maneuver them and lessen the effects of perturbing atmospheric forces.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/September/Day-19/i22564.htm (19017 words)

	The Space Review: Is there a business case for RLVs? (page 1)
		Develop an RLV that can reduce the cost of space access to some magic number—sometimes $1000/pound, other times as low as $100/pound—and the world will beat a path to your door, industry pundits and advocates claim.
		Orbital RLVs that can carry large enough payloads to be commercially useful require significant investments in technology, ranging from engines that can be reused multiple times between overhauls to lightweight composite structures that reduce the mass of the vehicle.
		In the absence of an RLV launch demand remains relatively flat, at about 60 to 80 launches a year through the end of the forecast in 2021.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/44/1 (979 words)

	Reusable Launch Vehicles
		RLV's, due to the fact that they are re-used, will dramatically reduce the cost of access to low earth orbit.
		A number of government research projects, most notably the X-33, X-34, X-37 and X-38, were initiated to develop and test new RLV technologies to reduce the risk of developing a next generation RLV.
		At the same time, a number of entrepreneurial companies have developed their own RLV concepts in an effort to reduce launch costs and undercut established launch vehicle providers.
	www.spaceandtech.com /spacedata/rlvs/rlvs.shtml (164 words)

	RLV's Home Page
		To download the latest RLV catalog in PDF format, click here.
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	www.rlv.com (59 words)

	Reusable Launch Vehicle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The RLV is now possible due to the significant advances in structures, materials, electronics and propulsion technology that has occurred over the past quarter century.
		RLV development costs are to be financed 80% by industry and 20% by the government.
		Although the concept of the RLV requires close scrutiny, it demonstrates that for a specific set of conditions, a win-win situation can be created in which industry makes money while the government saves money.
	www.as.wvu.edu /~dstewart/English2/Stacie/RLV2.html (1805 words)

	RLV Program Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Technology Program is a partnership between NASA and industry to design a new generation of launch vehicles expected to dramatically lower the costs of putting payloads in space.
		Unlike the Shuttle, the RLV will use a new linear aerospike engine, which looks and runs much differently than the bell-shaped Space Shuttle Main Engine.
		It is also lighter, and its form blends well with the RLV's lifting body airframe for lower drag during flight.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/x-33/rlv_facts.htm (524 words)

	Rocket Man Blog: Where are the RLV’s? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Both ELVs and RLVs can use staging, but an RLV requires a recovery mechanism be included in each stage, so the benefits of staging are not as great for an RLV as they are for an ELV.
		An RLV that could deliver payloads to orbit for half the cost of an ELV would capture a large fraction of the launch vehicle market and generate enough revenue to cover the development costs of the vehicle if there was more demand for commercial launches.
		These suborbital RLVs are much easier to build than orbital RLVs because the amount of energy required to reach space is about 25 times less than the energy required to reach orbit, and I believe that operating suborbital RLVs will pave the way to the development of orbital RLVs.
	www.rocketmanblog.com /2003/12/where_are_the_r.html (3144 words)

	Reusable Launch Vehicles
		The development of RLVs is driven by the desire to reduce launch costs.
		Potential reduction in RLV long-term production costs is attributed to vehicle refurbishment and reuse after each flight, rather than replacement.
		RLVs are designed for quick-turnaround operations that will allow for a higher volume and launch rate, resulting in economies of scale.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/systems/reusable.htm (418 words)

	Rocket Man Blog: Reusable Vs. Expendable Launch Vehicles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This life cycle difference necessitates that the components on an RLV either be heavier to withstand the fatigue of repeated use, or use a lower factor of safety to maintain the same weight.
		If the flight rate of an RLV were high, these additional costs could be amortized over a large number of flights and recovered quickly, but none of the business plans for any of the failed RLVs could support that high a flight rate.
		A commercial RLV launch would certainly cost less to fly than the Shuttle, but the cost of each launch would not be zero and it certainly would not be comparable to an airplane flight.
	www.rocketmanblog.com /2003/11/reusable_vs_exp.html (1481 words)

	Some Thoughts On Reusable Launch Vehicles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Such as 35K-lb-payload RLV could be used in place of all vehicles between the Thor and Saturn IB, and thus the 80 launches could be accumulated in a relatively short time, with significant savings in subsequent years.
		Additionally, an RLV which is designed with growth potential in mind provides a longer operating life span and therefore allows a greater number of years of use after the investment costs have been paid off.
		The RLV with aerodynamic qualities could be ferried from the manufacturing site to the launch site and thus eliminate the special carriers in use today, such as Guppies and special booster barges.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1970/nov-dec/holder.html (3398 words)

	ISRO's RLV Project
		The RLV will possess wings and tail fins, and will be launched atop a solid booster, similar to the ones on the PSLV.
		It is hoped that RLV technology will mature by 2015 by which time the solid rocket booster used as the first state will also be recovered and reused.
		The RLV and the rocket booster will be separately recovered, with the former making a conventional landing on a runway and booster making a parachute landing.
	kuku.sawf.org /Articles/229.aspx (1152 words)

	CollegeMarketPlace.com - INsider Magazine - Tokyo
		Then, the RLV has sense enough to come to rest on its "feet" in an upright position on the country and landing pad of your choice.
		One test of an RLV was conducted by three men in a trailer who ran the launch from a personal computer.
		The RLV design began when private engineers were challenged to find a cheap way to put 5,000 brilliant pebbles into five near-polar orbits.
	www.collegemarketplace.com /INsider/tokyo.html (1482 words)

	RLV ALERT - Your Portal To Reuseable Launch Vehicles
		Not just long in distance, but necessarily involving many long hours of sitting in one place, squirming around a pokey seat trying to get some sleep while some clown behind you sings Welsh rugby songs and an 18-month-old with a brand new tooth howls her way across the entire Indian Ocean.
		If the thing works, the UQ scramjet will be the fastest air-breathing engine ever built, capable of pushing aircraft along at up to ten times the speed of sound.
		The Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center have awarded Aerojet $7.9 million in added in-scope work on the Integrated Powerhead Program, which is demonstrating propulsion technologies that will be applied to the main engine for a military space launch vehicle or a shuttle replacement.
	www.spacedaily.com /rlv.html (590 words)

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	RLV SOFTWARE INC.
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	SPACE.com -- Europe's Phoenix: Test Craft Sets Stage For Reusable Rocketry
		Phoenix is to lead to a larger RLV intended to lower the cost of access to space.
		Central to the RLV work is decreasing the cost of pushing payloads into orbit.
		The prototype RLV is 23 feet (6.9 meters) long and hits the scale at 2,640 pounds (1200 kilograms).
	space.com /missionlaunches/europe_phoenix_020621.html (639 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Companies join forces to create 2nd generation RLV
		NASA's 2nd Generation RLV program, part of the agency's Space Launch Initiative, is designed to advance RLV system architectures and reduce commercial investment risk in support of a decision in 2005 by the Federal Government and commercial investors to proceed into full-scale development of new privately owned and operated RLV systems.
		Horizontal takeoff and initiation of rocket-powered flight from an airborne location permits increased operational flexibility, facilitates greatly enhanced crew and passenger safety, significantly improves system reliability, and lowers the cost to government and commercial customers for launch of their crews, passengers and cargoes to and from earth.
		In addition to satellites and other cargoes, the Kelly Space RLV system is destined to carry astronauts and private citizens to and from space.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0101/28sli (1031 words)

	NASA - X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator
		The wedge-shaped X-33 is a subscale technology demonstration prototype of a Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) which Lockheed Martin has labeled "VentureStarTM," and which the company hopes to develop early in the next century.
		A full-scale, single-stage-to-orbit RLV will dramatically increase reliability and lower the cost of putting a pound of payload into space from $10,000 to $1,000.
		The team members are working side-by-side in developing and testing the X-33's advanced technologies, such as lightweight composite materials for structures and tanks; advanced avionics and health-monitoring systems; systems for autonomous, unpiloted landings; advanced thermal protection systems; and the revolutionary propulsion system.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/marshall/news/background/facts/x33_old112098.htm (695 words)

	House Committee on Science
		In addition, it was concluded that a two-stage-to-orbit RLV could have many desirable performance characteristics and would be within reach of existing technologies.
		Consequently, the RLV design was driven by unique Space Station requirements that included cargo and crew transported into orbit, rendezvous and docking with the Station, and return of cargo and crew to a landing site.
		Given the uncertainty of the market and the higher cost of RLV development, NASA concluded that the economic case for a new RLV was in doubt for the foreseeable future.
	www.house.gov /science/hearings/space03/may08/gregory.htm (5317 words)

	A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NOTICE, Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Advanced Technology Demonstrator X - 33, DRAFT 1 (1994)
		The objective of NASA's technology development and demonstration effort is to support government and private sector decisions by the end of this decade on development of an operational next-generation reusable launch system.
		The goal of the RLV technology program is the continued lowering of the cost of access to space to promote the creation and delivery of new space services and other activities that will improve economic competitiveness and benefit all citizens.
		This and future phases of the RLV program are structured as follows: 1.2 X-33 Concept Definition/Design Phase (Phase I) This phase will consist of concept definition and preliminary design of a single stage reusable advanced technology demonstrator system, designated the X-33.
	www.islandone.org /Launch/X33-CAN-d1.html (8055 words)

	SPACE.com -- FAA Traces 'Reusable' Rocket Revolution
		But while more than a dozen government, private and foreign companies are deep into either design or development of the radical craft, none have yet reached the stage of actually constructing an operational vehicle.
		Dreamers of space development have tagged an operable RLV the "Holy Grail" of space, so significant would be the creation of such a vehicle.
		Another problem RLV backers have faced has been lack of federal support for their vehicles.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/launches/rlv_report_000210.html (905 words)

	Science World: Radical new rocket - NASA is experimenting with a reusable launch vehicle - RLV - called VentureStar ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Engineers are especially fired up because the RLV, called VentureStar, has a radical new type of rocket engine, the aerospike.
		Bob Baumgartner, an engineer working on the RLV, says a full-scale spacecraft should be ready for liftoff by 2004.
		If the RLV really does make space flight cheaper, you may one day be able to hitch a ride for a vacation in space.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1590/is_n4_v53/ai_18839100 (444 words)

	Battery System for Reusable Launch Vehicle
		A contract effort is being initiated to demonstrate the viability of a lithium-based (i.e., Li metal or Li-ion intercalation compound as negative electrode), polymer electrolyte regenerative battery system as the on-board energy source for RLV systems.
		This project is part of a larger effort intended to demonstrate new, mission-enabling technologies for advanced RLV concepts.
		The advanced RLV is envisioned as an all-electric vehicle, with energy for all on-board requirements, including electrochemical flight control actuators, provided by the electrical energy source.
	www.grc.nasa.gov /WWW/Electrochemistry/doc/rlv_batt.html (292 words)

	The Space Arena Board
		The aim of the pitch was simply to point out the potential of small RLVs and, more especially, how the application of relatively simple technologies and operations concepts can enable them to service existing markets as well as new ones.
		Of course, that’s true only if small RLVs with the necessary performance and operating costs can be fielded for under $1billion -- something many in the alt.space community claim -- and that the necessary RVD technologies would be available commercially as a result of government efforts like DART.
		Actually, this approach is not just limited to RLVs: apply something like it to Falcon 5 and, on paper at least, it has the potential to undercut the likes of Ariane 5 by 50% or more...
	www.space-frontier.org /cgi-bin/BBS/MoonBase/read/9245 (754 words)

	X-33 EC96-43631-2: VentureStar by Lockheed Martin in Orbit - Computer Graphic
		The RLV technology program was a cooperative agreement between NASA and industry.
		The goal of the RLV technology program was to enable significant reductions in the cost of access to space, and to promote the creation and delivery of new space services and other activities that would improve U.S. economic competitiveness.
		The X-33 was a wedged-shaped subscale technology demonstrator prototype of a potential future Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) that Lockheed Martin had dubbed VentureStar.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/photo/X-33/HTML/EC96-43631-2.html (386 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995)
		A propulsion concept for the RLV configuration will be selected prior to the Phase II decision which will be required by the preferred RLV configuration.
		A documented analysis will have been completed prior to the Phase II decision which demonstrates that the selected propulsion subsystems are scaleable to a full-scale RLV and that reuse/operations requirements will be adequately demonstrated by a X-33 vehicle.
		Estimated requirements for the RLV, which will be supported by this analysis, include a 100 mission life with 20 flights between depot maintenance and a 50 percent reduction in engine inspection time between flights as compared to the shuttle.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309054370/html/56.html (584 words)

	RLV and Space Transport News
		I believe the report will eventually be posted on the website of the Personal Spaceflight Federation, which sponsored the study.
		Paul Breed makes some suggestions for a RLV prize program: Something different....prizes - Unreasonable Rocket
		I'm sure Burt will celebrate this news: Suborbital travel has low carbon footprint says ESA - Flight Global
	www.hobbyspace.com /nucleus (1362 words)

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