NASA Advanced Space Transportation Program

The Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP), (dt. About Advanced Space Transportation Program ) is a research and development program of the US aerospace agency NASA .

The next generation of space and propulsion systems for manned and unmanned missions are being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center . Research focuses on the following areas: scramjets , PDE , ion propulsion , antimatter propulsion , magnetic levitation launch assist, space tether and others. Technologies for space tourism and asteroid mining are also designed.

Until 2002, the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project also took place as part of the ASTP .

See also

• Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies from ESA

Web links

• Information on the Advanced Space Transportation Program on the NASA website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Advanced Space Transportation Program . nasa.gov
2. ^ David Darling: The complete book of spaceflight - from Apollo 1 to Zero gravity. Wiley, Hoboken 2003, ISBN 0-471-05649-9 , p. 9
3. ↑ NASA Air-Breathing Engine Rockets On Paper spacedaily.com, accessed April 28, 2011
4. ↑ [1] ; Magnetic Levitation ( Memento from March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) msfc.nasa.gov, pdf accessed on April 30, 2011