Spacelift: Suborbital, Earth to Orbit and On-Orbit
A vision for the future: In 2020, aerospace forces will be a reality. A notional composite aerospace wing, based in the continental United States
(CONUS), would include a squadron of rocket-powered transatmospheric vehicles (TAV).
These Black Horse (1) vehicles, derived from the Question Mark 2 (2) X-vehicle shown in figure 1 and described later in this paper, will be
fighter-sized airframes capable of placing an approximately 5,000 pound payload in any low earth orbit (LEO), or delivering a slightly larger payload
on a suborbital trajectory to any point in the world.
A Black Horse vehicle could accomplish either task within one hour of completion of mission planning, assuming that the payload was available at the
base and the vehicles were on alert. When operating in support of a war-fighting commander in chief (CINC), the aerospace wing will thus have the
capability to put mission-specific payloads on orbit (mission-tailored satellites) or on target literally within a few hours of identification of a
need.
Most missions-- except some suborbital operational and ferry/deployment missions--will require aerial propellant transfer from modified KC-XX
aircraft.
I find this link full of all kinds of hints of technology's we have now and soon will have:
www.fas.org... its got allot of what we talk about everyday here on ATS in it,Unconventional Spacelift,
Secret Space force, Star Wars Program, Weather Modification, Micro-mechanical devices. Reading this should give some truth to the people that don't
believe in what is talked about in Spacecast 2020. What do you guy's think?