Dream Chaser for CEV requirement

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#ICYMI @SierraSpaceCo successfully completed the entire installation of the Passive Common Berthing Mechanism to the Shooting Star™ service module! Now, it has everything it needs to successfully berth to the International Space Station. Read more here bit.ly/3xh0eX8
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We’re celebrating National Aviation Day with the Dream Chaser® spaceplane! While an astronaut can pilot Dream Chaser, our spaceplane doesn’t actually need a pilot. Learn how it’ll take flight during its first mission to the @Space_Station next year bit.ly/2WaGDuL
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We may not be sending humans to space (YET!) but plenty get to go inside our Dream Chaser® spaceplane as we build it. Here, a tech installs shelving for the avionic computers that control Dream Chaser during flight.
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I spy with my little eye a Dream Chaser spaceplane looking good enough to fly! Our full-scale Dream Chaser model is now officially ready to make the drive to #CES2022. Stay tuned for trip updates! #DreamChaser #SierraSpace
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FAA has posted a Draft Environmental Assessment for Sierra Space to use the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center as a landing site for Dream Chaser. Comments due Jan 24, 2022. No public hrg planned but a slide deck is available. https://faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/shuttle_landing_facility/
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I am a bit skeptical about the front landing gear config. I don't know how they have their main link with the fuselage set but with no castoring wheel, every beta escape (when the plane exit its plane of symetry during landing (such as with crosswind)) would have to be dealt amplified, modalized, opposite and out of sync.
 
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Now that rebranding spooks me a little.

I have this vision of the thing growing past the lifting body guys—them being called in and being given the heave-ho by the new suits. Vern Rayburn anyone?
 
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Now that rebranding spooks me a little.

I have this vision of the thing growing past the lifting body guys—them being called in and being given the heave-ho by the new suits. Vern Rayburn anyone?
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Need your eye checked. They grew past the lifting body group only long ago.
It is new marketing and not another merger. Also Lockheed Martin is a major supplier.
 
Sierra Space says it is making good progress on its first Dream Chaser spaceplane as the company looks ahead to versions of the vehicle that can carry crews and perform national security missions.

The company provided SpaceNews with images of the first Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, being assembled at its Colorado headquarters. The vehicle’s structure is now largely complete, but there is still more work to install its thermal protection system and other components.

“We have the wings on now. It really looks like a spaceplane,” said Janet Kavandi, president of Sierra Space, during a panel at the AIAA ASCENDx Texas conference in Houston April 28, where she played a video showing work building the vehicle.
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That launch will be the first in a series of cargo missions to the International Space Station under a NASA Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract awarded in 2016. Sierra Space is looking beyond cargo missions and is starting work on a crewed version of Dream Chaser that could launch as soon as 2026.

Work on the crewed version is internally funded, he said, but with hopes of offering it to NASA for future ISS crew transportation missions. “We think that we’ve got a really good opportunity to on-ramp back on NASA crew,” he said. NASA supported earlier phases of Dream Chaser development through funded Space Act Agreements in its Commercial Crew Development program, but did not select the vehicle for contracts it awarded in 2014 to Boeing and SpaceX to complete development and testing of crewed vehicles.
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Sierra Space has also discussed making a version of Dream Chaser for national security missions, but offered few specifics about how it would be different from the cargo or crew versions. There has been speculation it would have capabilities similar to the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane, whose missions have been largely shrouded in secrecy.

Vice declined to go into details on the national security variant, including whether Sierra Space or the national security space community started discussions about it. “I would just say it is an engaging two-way conversation,” he said.
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First Dream Chaser vehicle takes shape

Sierra Space says it is making good progress on its first Dream Chaser spaceplane as the company looks ahead to versions of the vehicle that can carry crews and perform national security missions.
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So it's called Tenacity. What happens when all the good emotions and virtues are used? Ennui, Schadenfreude, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Why yes, that is my coat, thank you.

Seriously though,

“We think that we’ve got a really good opportunity to on-ramp back on NASA crew,”

After Boeing's problems, their chances have certainly improved. Maybe not yet for ISS but almost certainly for commercial ventures such as Orbital Reef.
 
Sierra Space announced an agreement with the Turkish Space Agency and an affiliated company June 29 that could lead to cooperation on human spaceflight and lunar missions.

Sierra Space said it signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Turkish Space Agency and ESEN Sistem Entegrasyon, a Turkish company affiliated with Sierra Nevada Corporation, spanning a broad range of potential partnerships among the organizations that could include use of Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft and inflatable modules it is developing for the Orbital Reef space station.

“This agreement with the Turkish Space Agency and ESEN is another significant step for Sierra Space as we build a technology and business platform in LEO and, in doing so, deliver affordable access to space, opening the commercial space economy to the world,” Tom Vice, chief executive of Sierra Space, said in a statement.
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Sierra Space signs agreement with Turkish Space Agency - SpaceNews

Sierra Space announced an agreement with the Turkish Space Agency and an affiliated company June 29 for space cooperation.
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That's a good axe of expansion for the dynamic industry of Turkiye.
Great opportunities ahead, IMOHO.
 
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That's a good axe of expansion for the dynamic industry of Turkiye.
Great opportunities ahead, IMOHO.
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?? Sounds like you're saying they'd build it for Turkey. Wouldn't that be an ITAR issue?
 
@sferrin : Up to Sierra Space to tell us about this. I have no idea.

What I see is a dynamic design bureau lacking real world experience and a boiling industry ever in search of a new project (financed). Well, the brides look in good reciprocal hands (and don't ask me what it is!).
 
@sferrin : see post #182
Sierra Space said it signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Turkish Space Agency and ESEN Sistem Entegrasyon, a Turkish company affiliated with Sierra Nevada Corporation, spanning a broad range of potential partnerships among the organizations that could include use of Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft and inflatable modules it is developing for the Orbital Reef space station.
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Sierra Space is creating an astronaut training program led by a company executive and former NASA astronaut as another step in developing a crewed version of its Dream Chaser vehicle and a commercial space station.

The company announced June 14 it was opening a commercial human spaceflight training center and astronaut training academy at its offices at the Kennedy Space Center. Janet Kavandi, a former NASA astronaut and president of Sierra Space, will lead the center.
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Sierra Space to start astronaut training program - SpaceNews

Sierra Space is creating an astronaut training program led by a company executive and former NASA astronaut as another step in its human spaceflight plans.
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Sierra Space’s Janet Kavandi says in a panel session on the Orbital Reef commercial space station that the first flight of Dream Chaser is now planned for next summer. #IAC2022
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Sierra Space President Janet Kavandi: The cargo Dream Chaser will debut "next summer," and "we expect to fly people" on the first crew Dream Chaser "by 2026," which "should be in plenty of time for our debut of Orbital Reef in the 2027 to 2028 timeframe."
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As Dream Chaser’s first launch gets closer and closer, so have the updates and progress on the spacecraft from Sierra Space. This spaceplane is expected to change how we access space and provide one of a kind features. While in the last few months we were provided a few sneak peeks at the test articles and their progress, now we are getting even more.

Just yesterday Sierra Space released a new image showing off the Dream Chaser test article with quite a few thermal tiles installed. Decades ago the Space Shuttle performed over 100 missions but had a few problems as well. In this case, Sierra Space is trying to create a modern spaceplane that innovates on past experiences and lessons learned.

However, this spacecraft still features a very ambitious design that has yet to be tested on an actual launch. A fact the company is working to change with the first launch scheduled less than one year away in the third quarter of 2023. Here I will go more in-depth into the recent update, the differences between Dream Chaser and the Space Shuttle, what to expect in the future, and more.

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0:54 - Dream Chaser's Thermal Tiles
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