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Thursday, 30 August 2012 10:46

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is an electronic systems provider and systems integrator specializing in microsatellites, energy,telemedicine, nanotechnology, and commercial orbital transportation services. The company contracts with the US military, NASA and private spaceflight companies. The company is headquartered in Sparks, Nevada, USA.

On December 2008 SNC acquired the company SpaceDev. SNC is now developing an orbital spacecraft called the Dream Chaser. On February 2010, Sierra Nevada Corporation was awarded a contract in phase 1 of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program for the development of the Dream Chaser.

 

 

 

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Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:49

Dream Chaser (space plane)

The Dream Chaser is a space plane concept studied and developed by the North-American company Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC).

It is designed to be a crewed suborbital and orbital vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting-body space plane. The Dream Chaser design is planned to carry up to seven people to and from low earth orbit. The vehicle would launch vertically on an Atlas V and land horizontally on conventional runways.

 

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