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SSecond(s)
SSouth
SSmile
SSatisfactory
SAs
SSearch (Stores 100 code)
SSex
SSystem
SSource (transistor; electronics)
SStore
SSubject
SSection
SSave (baseball)
SSuper (in automatic transmissions; equal to 2)
SSign
SSide (geometry, as in the SSS postulate)
SShort
SSafety (football)
SSeite
SSiemens
SSecret
SSweden (ISO Country Identifier)
SStorage
SSavings (economics)
SSan Francisco, CA (mint mark)
SSnow (weather reports)
SSwitch
SSatellite (imagery, type of map)
SSin (Spanish: Without)
SSierra (aviation letter code)
SSevere (rock climbing grade)
SStuttgart (auto license plate)
SSemi-Annual
SSmooth (woodworking)
SSuperb
SSeminar
SScout
SSleeve
SSealed (CD condition)
SSaskatchewan (postal code designation, Canada)
SSacrifice (baseball)
SSenate
SSphere
SSuperman
SSegment
SSubsidiary (IRB)
SSheffield (postcode, United Kingdom)
SServicing
SSears (stock symbol)
SSpectacles
SSickness (on overtime forms)
SSine (Latin: Without)
SScrap
SSequential
SShaman (Mic-O-Say, Heart of America Council, Boy Scouts of America)
SDisplacement
SSeaman
SStokes (kinematic viscosity)
SSulfur
SShilling (British currency)
SSpades (playing cards)
SSoldering
SSparkasse (German: public savings bank)
SEntropy (thermodynamics)
SStarboard (nautical)
SSubchapter S Corporation
SSkype (voice-over-Internet service)
SSecurity Prison (Cambodia; Khmer Rouge designation)
SSerine (amino acid)
SSystolic (peak blood pressure)
SStreptococcus
SStreptomycin
SAntisubmarine (US military aircraft designation; as in S-2 Tracker)
SSpaceplane (US military aerospace vehicle)
SSchweizer Aircraft Co. (manufacturer's symbol)
STrack spacing
SSacral Vertebra (prefix, as in S-1)
SScatterable (mines)
SSocialdemokratiska Arbetarpartiet (Swedish political party)
SSilicaceous (asteroid class)
SSubthreshold Swing
SStarboard Truss Segment (ISS)
SFranchise Stamp (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately)
SFresnel Sine Integral
SS Sub-Shell (innermost electron subshell)
SArea of a geometric figure (mathematics)
STERCOM-Aided Inertial Navigation System
SOnde Seconde (Italian: second wave; seismography)
SSupervisory Function Bit
SSecondary Body Waves
SUS DoT tire speed rating (112 mph)
SContinuous-time complex variable (analogous to Z in discrete-time; electrical engineering)
SFourth Heartbeat Wave
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References in periodicals archive
(31.) Jess Sponable, "Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1): Aiming to Reduce the Time to Space and Cost to Space by Orders of Magnitude," Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, 29 April 2016, https:// www.darpa.mil/attachments/20160429_Sponable_XS1_Industry_Day_DISTAR_26422.pdf.
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, also plans to fly tourists, though to a higher altitude and with a rocket that launches vertically, not a spaceplane. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
It believes the pre-cooler will be a "key enabler" for the Sabre, a combined jet and rocket engine which could help create a new generation of single-stage spaceplanes capable of Mach 5.4 in the atmosphere and Mach 25 in space.
Summary: There's also no telling what the spaceplane will be doing
But the company's engineers have also devised a means to control the frosting, permitting the SABRE engine to run in jet mode for as long as is needed before making the transition to full rocket mode to take the SKYLON spaceplane into orbit.
TEHRAN (FNA)- China is planning to take space exploration to a new level, as it develops a new "spaceplane" that could take off from a runway and fly at hypersonic speed before blasting into space and back.
"Flying Wings & Radical Things: Northrop's Secret Aerospace Projects & Concepts 1939-1994" by aviation enthusiasts and historian Tony Chong unveils Northrop's once-secret radical designs, many for the first time, with never-before-published drawings, models, and photos of such novel concepts as a ship-based vertical take-off and landing fighter, a supersonic intercontinental cruise missile, a rocket-boosted jet spaceplane trainer, and a radical combination truck/aircraft/boat cargo vehicle.
The team behind the latest suborbital spaceplane includes leaders from NASA's mission control and astronaut corps, the militaries from three nations and from the top flight of the aviation and transport industries.
The SpaceShipTwo is a "spaceplane" that can fly both in air and space, and gets launched after being carried up to a specific altitude.
He was also the lead NASA project pilot on many programs including the HL-20 Spaceplane (on which the Sierra Nevada Corp.
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