Radian Aerospace Introduces Reusable Space Platform For Hypersonic Testing, Orbital Use - Defense Daily

Radian Plans Re-entry Vehicle For Hypersonic Tests

Radian Aerospace said it will build a hypersonic reentry vehicle to generate cash, and support the development of its sled-launched single-stage-to-orbit rocketplane. What it is: The Radian Reusable Reentry Vehicle (R3V) will be a capsule just over six feet high that will fly on launch vehicles as small as Rocket Lab’s Electron. When re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, R3V will endure a hypersonic environment useful for testing components for the Ra…

Radian unveils plan for reusable re-entry vehicle

Seattle-based Radian Aerospace says it’s developing a reusable re-entry vehicle that can be used to test aerospace components under stressful conditions and then bring them back down to Earth. The Radian Reusable Re-entry Vehicle, or R3V, is meant to advance technologies that the company is building into Radian One, its single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane. Radian says the insights gained from R3V’s uncrewed test flights will inform critical element…

Radian Aerospace Introduces Reusable Space Platform For Hypersonic Testing, Orbital Use - Defense Daily

Radian Aerospace has introduced a reusable space capsule it is developing as a testbed for technologies it is developing and for customers developing hypersonic and spaceflight systems, giving the Seattle-based […]