Reusable Booster System
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The Reusable Booster System (RBS) is a United States Air Force
circa-2010 program to develop a new vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) reusable booster and a new expendable second stage to replace the existing Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELV) after 2025.
"Officials anticipate awarding up to three contracts for the project, where winners would compete for individual tasks of experiments and demonstrations that address technology, processes and other attributes of a reusable booster system, or RBS." The proposal deadline is 19 March 2011.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
circa-2010 program to develop a new vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) reusable booster and a new expendable second stage to replace the existing Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELV) after 2025.
Program description
Program funding is set at ."Officials anticipate awarding up to three contracts for the project, where winners would compete for individual tasks of experiments and demonstrations that address technology, processes and other attributes of a reusable booster system, or RBS." The proposal deadline is 19 March 2011.
External links
- USAF Seeks Reusable Booster Ideas, Aviation Week, May 14, 2009
- Air Force studying reusable upper stage systems for reusable booster, RLV and Space Transport News, September 2010.
- Andrews Space Awarded USAF Reusable Booster System Study Contract, RLV and Space Transport News, September 2010.