Secret Spaceplane Revealed!

Aviation week has posted a great article on a spaceplane called the SR-3 Blackstar.....You might know the aircraft by SR-73 / Mothership / Brilliant Buzzard / Penatrator.

It was the successor to the XB-70, and it can carry a spaceplane around mach 3.3 and release it around 103,000 feet, then release the XOV (experimental orbital vehicle), which will then climb into LEO.

Heres the link, its a good read, and hopefully with it being shelved, it will find its way out of the "black" world.

Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake?


some more pics
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[edit on 6-3-2006 by Murcielago]

there's already a thread on this.

Originally posted by SkyBlueTwo
there's already a thread on this.

It would help if you posted the link to it.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

posted about 2 hours earlier. but this one has better pictures

For me, this story calls into question all of that UFO / alien tech / antigravity / black triangle stuff. Why would the US go to the trouble of building sort of a super secret space shuttle using conventional chemical rockets if they have all of this exotic tech?

[edit on 6-3-2006 by ElTiante]

[edit on 6-3-2006 by ElTiante]

Thread closed, as there is a previous thread on it, available here.