spaceplane in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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This was also the first spaceflight of a spaceplane in aviation history.
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The vehicle consisted of a spaceplane for orbit and re-entry, fueled by expendable liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks, with reusable strap-on solid booster rockets.
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The costs were expected to be reduced by the reusable nature of the spaceplane and launch facilities and by somewhat lower fuel-consumption than conventional systems.
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Its major components were a spaceplane orbiter with an external fuel tank and two solid-fuel launch rockets at its side.
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The spaceplane's thermal protection system is built upon previous generations of atmospheric reentry spacecraft, incorporating silica ceramic tiles.
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Advanced spaceplane concepts in the 1990s and 2000s did use lifting-body designs.
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The orbiter was a reusable winged spaceplane, a mixture of rockets, spacecraft, and aircraft.
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It landed on a long runway as a spaceplane.
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The vast majority of the entries, however, were two-stage spaceplanes.
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Spacecraft including spaceplanes of reusable systems have major propulsion or landing facilities.
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