Project HOPE-X spaceplane

[Pioneer]

Pipcard I think you should finish this project first.

 

[Pipcard]

I found an old NASDA page

Its formal name in Japanese seems to be "宇宙往還技術試験機", which translates to "Space shuttle technology testing machine"

 

[Pipcard]

I'm about to start college this Wednesday, and I expect to get my PC on Tuesday.

I think I should just upload the mesh, textures, and H-IIB multistage2 config files.

But I'm not feeling like doing it at the moment, sorry.

 

[Pipcard]

I'm very sorry for not finishing this or not uploading something for someone else to finish, but I really wanted to work on HASDA's spacecraft.

What I still really need is "Christmas Island" without clouds on the ground.

It turns out that there are two "Christmas Islands":
- one west of Australia
- one in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (also known as "Kiritimati")

Earlier, I had made the mistake of confusing one with the other.

HOPE-X was supposed to land at Kiritimati, which looks like this:

At the bottom right corner, you can see a black line. That is Aeon Field.

edit: This is how it looks in the Orbiter 2015 beta

edit: Another thing, the Eyes Turned Skyward alternate history timeline now has its own HOPE-X, called "HOPE-C" (Cargo):

 

[Matias Saibene]

Hmm - abundance of small shuttles .

Spaceplane is the future!... and the future is now

 

[barrygolden]

Back in the late eighty's we all were waiting to see these new space planes soar off the pads. Sadly none of them reached the pad and after the Challenger that all but ended the winged landings. To support a space station it will take land landings . I would love to see the X 33 mounted on a Delta 4 Heavy and flown to the ISS.

Orbiter really needs an AP for all winged spacecraft to do landings. Auto AFS is awesome to watch the Shuttle deorbit and land.

Great job so far with Hope. That Star Chaser looks a lot like the Lockheed OSP entry, that would be nice to see fly