Comments on: Sierra Space announces plans to build a second Dream Chaser cargo spaceplane https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/#comment-1530988 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:57:43 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109791#comment-1530988 With all due respect, having a glide capability is a need, not a want.

Starship with no LAS? I’ll let you have that.

]]> By: Charlie https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/#comment-1530965 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:17:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109791#comment-1530965 Maybe we can use these to resupply mars, I’m sure we’ll have Colonized mars before they get off the ground

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/#comment-1530743 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 04:13:17 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109791#comment-1530743 In reply to Jeff Wright.

Jeff Wright wrote, “This is why I want an American Energiya/Buran type Shuttle 2.”

I’ve said this to you before. You “want” a lot of things, as if they can snapped out of thin air for nothing. If you think this is such a great idea, I would think investors would be easy to find. And yet they are not.

Maybe it ain’t such a great idea after all.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/#comment-1530738 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 03:50:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109791#comment-1530738 An interesting discussion on the Venture Star type X-33:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=61812.msg2638959#msg2638959

All they liked was a heat-shield.

As it turns out, Buran orbiters could have flown with conventional turbo-jets after all:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/energia-buran-space-transportation-system.5656/page-7#post-725147

This is why I want an American Energiya/Buran type Shuttle 2.

I envision a larger top/wing mount pair of J-79s, Venture Star metal heat-shield.

The core would have the main engines…that can come home in a pod leaving the tank as a wet workshop—-or the engine/tankage combo land like Starship with the orbiter keeping crew in a craft that is just another jet plane on return.

No need for Skylon type airbreathing.

They went under anyway:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/reaction-engines-sabre-engine-skylon-spaceplane.2455/page-17#post-725633

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/#comment-1530524 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 23:35:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109791#comment-1530524 Just wait until about 2035-ish when Tesla Optimus robots with XAI brains are flying SpaceX Starship v5’s mining the asteroid belt. That’ll be a tough market to crack.

18 months to build a second Dream-chaser? Snooze, lose, etc.

]]> By: M. Murcek https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sierra-space-announces-plans-to-build-a-second-dream-chaser-cargo-spaceplane/#comment-1530513 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:33:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109791#comment-1530513 AI maven Sam Altman is already saying AI will be over in five years and won’t make any meaningful impact on humanity long term. Space is much the same. SpaceX basically owns it and that won’t change. The other operations will basically be money vacuums for stupid investors.

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