DARPA launched a space transport project

At present, every spacecraft launch requires a lot of preparation and is very expensive. Therefore, the US Advanced Defense Projects Agency - DARPA has developed an experimental space flight program (Experimental Spaceplane - XS-1) in the hope of lowering costs to the lowest level by developing a Reusable launch system like shuttle. Spacecraft can land and re-take off in just one day, thereby cutting the cost of each launch to 1 in 10.

We live in a world that is turning dizzy, every international situation can change in just one night. Areas that were previously stable and peaceful could suddenly turn into hot spots of war and crisis.

In the face of security threats, the United States has relied heavily on military surveillance satellite networks. However, if the threat suddenly appears somewhere, the satellites can only be launched from certain locations, along with logistics and preparation work that take years. , spending hundreds of millions of dollars to bring satellites into orbit.

To minimize these problems, DARPA launched the XS-1 program aimed at developing a new generation of spacecraft. The defense agency has envisioned that this will be a modular ship with an automatic launch system, fly and recover from existing technologies. The ship does not need much support infrastructure or crew.

DARPA wants that space planes can launch 10 times in a 10-day cycle, orbiting the Earth at orbit over Mach 10, freeing satellites during flight and reducing the cost of bringing cargo packages. weighing from 1360 to 2267kg to orbit to 5 million USD.

Jess Sponable, manager of DARPA's XS-1 program, said: "XS-1 aims to break the long-range satellite launch cycle and high cost. It will help the process of developing machine technologies. supersonic flight as well as opening opportunities for testing new satellite technologies ".

DARPA is currently attracting ideas and technical proposals for the project at the XS-1 Proposer's Day conference on October 7.

"We want to build practical technologies to create a reliable, low-cost space transport system with a round-trip time of just one day. Everything is still on the desk and we're looking. Search for the best innovations to come up with feasible solutions , ' Sponable said