
Image credit: NASA/SAO
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Baseline Vehicle Sizing

B-52 Clearances and Constraints

B-52 Clearances and Constraints

B-52 Constraints Physical Space Available

X-24C/B-52 Interface

Ablator Surface Area – Mach 6/1033K
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The space shuttle is launched from Cape Kennedy in this artist’s concept by Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. Firing at the same time as the two solid-propellant boosters are the liquid-fueled engines of the orbiter, right. The two solid boosters will be jettisoned next, and the orbiter will continue into orbit.
Space World
November 1972, VOL. I-11-107
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FIGURE 1 Lockheed’s first supersonic transport (SST) design of 1956-58.
FIGURE 2 SST concept of the late-1950s.
Code One, Volume 24, Number 2, 2009
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A Lockheed concept for the advanced tactical fighter (ATF) aircraft.
Lockheed Horizons, Number 17, February 1985
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Lockheed Horizons, Number 18, June 1985
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Artist’s concept of the pre-Shuttle Lockheed-sponsored Star Clipper stage-and-one-half lifting body configuration ascending from a desert launching base – circa 1968.
Lockheed Horizons, Number 13, 1983
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Lockheed Horizons, Number 14, 1983
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Lockheed Horizons, Number 24, September 1987
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