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Can space shuttle lift off from the back of the cargo plane?

 


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Can space shuttle lift off from the back of the cargo plane?


Small-size shuttles are often launched from the back of other aircraft, and every miniature shuttle is not the X-37B. In the image above this text portraits the commercial robot shuttle, which is created by a Swiss company named Swiss Space System(1). In this case, the carrier aircraft is Airbus A-300 (Image I). 


 It actually can use this thing, if it uses internal fuel and oxygenation tanks, which are leaving the cargo very small, and in this case, those tanks would put in the cargo bay of the shuttle. The problem is that if the flames of the rocket motor touch the back of the cargo-plane it can cause the destruction. So the space shuttle must be separated properly and the main engines start in the safe distance. This is the key element to launch a shuttle to orbiter by using other aircraft. 




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I don't know is the "full size" shuttles launch to suborbital or ballistic trajectories from other aircraft. But small size shuttles like Virgin Galactica corporations shuttles are launched from the aircraft. In the cases of the small-size robot shuttles, what are meant to travel to the orbiter and make some missions like taking miniature satellites to orbiter the most common way to make those launches is putting those shuttles back to another airplane, and then launch them to the orbiter. 


And the small-size Pegasus (3) rockets are launched from the airplanes. I don't know are the small-size satellite launching capsules, what can use in many times space shuttles, but this kind of capsules are launched to LEO (Low Earth Orbiter) by using the other airplanes, what are taking them to the edge of space and then they launch them to the orbiter. The thing is that those rockets are often launched from the aircraft, like the Virgin Galactic mothership (Image II).


(1) https://www.space.com/20449-swiss-private-rocket-plane-2017.html


( 2) https://www.virgingalactic.com/


(3) https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/pegasus-rocket/


Image I https://www.space.com/20449-swiss-private-rocket-plane-2017.html


Image II https://www.space.com/16530-virgin-galactic-satellite-launches-launcherone.html

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