Boeing X-40 - Wikipedia
The Boeing X-40 Space Maneuver Vehicle is a test platform for the Boeing X-37 reusable spaceplane, built by Boeing Phantom Works. It sought to test the X-37's systems in order to "reduce the cost and risk of future reusable space launch vehicle system."
Boeing X-40A - National Museum of the USAF
The unmanned, unpowered Boeing X-40A was the first-phase flight test vehicle for the U.S. Air Force’s Space Maneuver Vehicle program that began in the late 1990s. The program aimed to develop small, reusable, highly maneuverable spacecraft for deploying satellites and conducting surveillance and logistics missions.
The Boeing X-40 Was Decades Ahead of Its Time
2020年8月17日 — The Boeing X-40 Was Decades Ahead of Its Time. The program, which is now largely forgotten, proved instrumental in the development of the X-37B–the United States Space Force's reusable space...
X-40A Space Maneuvering Vehicle - NASA
2016年3月2日 — Boeing built the X-40A originally for the Air Force as part of that service’s Space Maneuver Vehicle program. It made one free flight in 1998 at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico before being loaned to NASA to aid the X-37 effort.
X-40A: Experimental Space Plane That Helped Create the X-37B
2024年6月1日 — X-40A: A Trailblazing Experimental Aircraft that Paved the Way for the Mini-Space Shuttle- After the space shuttle retired, it looked like it was the end of the line for vertically-launched and...
NASA Dryden X-40A SMV Photo Collection
On display during a technical exposition at Dryden are NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, Boeing's X-37, Boeing's X-40A behind the MicroCraft X-43 mock-up, Orbital Science's X-34 and the modified Lockheed L-1011 airliner that will launch the X-34.
X-40A Space Maneuver Vehicle - NASA
2023年8月23日 — The X-40 sub-scale technology demonstrator and its U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter mothership fly over a dry lakebed runway during... Aerospace industry representatives view actual and mock-up versions of 'X-Planes' intended to enhance access to space during a technical exposition...
X-40 - astronautix.com
Boeing X-40A Experimental Space Maneuver Vehicle was built to test landing technologies for the later X-37. Height: 6.71 m (22.01 ft). Span: 3.66 m (12.00 ft). The X-40A successfully completed a series of seven approach and landing tests at NASA Dryden in 2000 and 2001.
X-40A First Free Flight - YouTube
2017年11月11日 — This 40-second video taken April 4, 2001 shows the lift off and release of the X-40A space maneuvering vehicle in its first free flight at NASA's Dryden Flig...
Boeing X-40 Space Maneuver Vehicle - Technology Demonstrators
The Boeing X-40A was an experimental spaceplane that served as a technology demonstrator for autonomous landing and recovery capabilities.