XS-1 (spacecraft) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 26/03/2019

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00:01:09 1 History
00:04:40 2 Program goals
00:06:12 3 Entrants and selection
00:09:14 4 Boeing XS-1 Phantom Express



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SUMMARY
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The DARPA XS-1 is an experimental spaceplane/booster with planned capability to deliver small satellites into orbit for the U.S. Military. It is reported to be designed to be reusable as frequently as once a day, with a stated goal of doing so for 10 days straight.  The XS-1 is intended to directly replace the "first stage" of a multistage rocket that will be capable of hypersonic flight at suborbital altitude, enabling one or more expendable upper stages to separate and deploy a payload into low Earth orbit. The XS-1 would then return to Earth, where it could ostensibly be serviced fast enough to repeat the process at least once every 24 hours.In May 2017 DARPA selected Boeing for Phase 2/3 to build and test the XS-1 (now called the Experimental Spaceplane program). Test flights are scheduled to start no earlier than 2020.