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20040037790 · X-37 Flight Demonstrator: Approach and Landing Test Vehicle Flight Test Approach

NASA · 2004

Open the PDFPublic domain · NASATechnical Reports

Overview

Approach and Lending Test Vehicle (ALTV) reduces risk to the X-37 orbital vehicle (OV) flight program by: Testing a subset of OV technologies in a critical portion of the flight envelope. Validating the calculated air data system (CADS) performance/subsonic aerodynamic database. Demonstrating OV…