Bob Martin of KRQE TV has some really interesting photos of a winged prototype space vehicle that Lockheed Martin launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico in December.
“It looks a bit like the space shuttle and would fly to space and return the same way. But even the big version would not carry people, just satellites,” Martin reports. “The goal is to get to orbit faster and cheaper thanks to an automated reusable spacecraft run by its own computers and just a handful of people for a launch crew.”
The one-fifth scale model was launched on a rocket by UP Aerospace. Both UP and Lockheed Martin agreed to continue using the spaceport, which state officials want to upgrade to support space tourism flights by Virgin Galactic.
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