Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) Program

Abstract

Six years ago, the Defense Science Board (DSB) initiated a review of the concept, technical basis, program content, and missions of the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) program. The report was completed in September, 1988, and the recommendations contributed to strengthening the technical efforts in the NASP program. Since then, substantial technological progress has been made in the technology development phase (Phase II) of the program. Phase II of the program is currently scheduled to end in late Fiscal Year 1993, with a decision whether to proceed to the experimental flight vehicle phase (Phase III) to be made at that time. This decision will be a very significant one for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In February of this year, the DSB was chartered to revisit the NASP program to assess the degree to which the many technical challenges of the program have been resolved, or are likely to be resolved by the end of Phase II.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA274530

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Science Board

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospaceplanes
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Transition
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Contractors
  • Databases
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Hypersonic Flight
  • Payload
  • Structural Components
  • Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space