Spaceplanes Galore (Please identify :)

[leovinus]

Found this page where it says

Spaceplanes Galore!
If its got wings, goes anywhere near space and probably won't ever be built, then we've got a picture of it!

https://web.archive.org/web/19971017193003/http://hungerford.chch.cri.nz/k/stmisc.html

From the first dozen images, I know one or two (like FESTIP) but most images I have never seen. Hence I thought it would be fun to identify all images "What study and year?" and figure out if there are any remaining documents around. Maybe we even have old threads for them. Please add and have fun marveling at forgotten dreams.

[leovinus]

Let me make a start. The first set of images

Advent Sub-orbital SSTO:
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Advent TSTO:
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is from Advent Launch Services (ALS) founded in the 90s. An X-prize competitor.

The image at
https://web.archive.org/web/19971118133755/http://hungerford.chch.cri.nz/k/pic/advtsto4.jpg
is the same TSTO as at
https://web.archive.org/web/20130731025046/http://adventlaunchservices.com/?page_id=36

There old company website is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20120708001915/http://adventlaunchservices.com/

There was a brief thread here and a bit more info at SPF Advent Launch Services RLVs

From the report
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/suborbital_report.pdf

Advent Launch Services
Houston-based Advent Launch Services is developing the sea- launched Advent vehicle for the Ansari X Prize competition and beyond. The Advent is a winged booster rocket 11 meters (35 feet) high with a gross liftoff mass of about 5,700 kilograms (12,600 pounds). The rocket will burn liquid methane and oxygen to produce a thrust of 84,100 newtons (18,900 pounds-force). It takes off vertically from an ocean launch site, firing its engines for 97 sec- onds. The vehicle continues on a ballistic trajectory, reaching a peak altitude of 105 kilometers (65 miles); passengers experience three-and-a-half min- utes of microgravity during this phase of the flight. Advent then performs an aerodynamic controlled glide, landing horizontally back at the launch loca- tion in the ocean.

[leovinus]

These images

ALFLEX: IMAGE ...

are from a Japanese project. I wonder what the next step via HyCruise is?

ALFLEX Trials Provide Vital Know-How For Hope-X

Tokyo - October 25, 1996 -
Following successful landing trials of a 37% scale model, officials at The National Space Development Agency (NASDA) are now confident that Japan's unmanned shuttle experiment, the H-2 Orbiting plane Experiment (Hope-X), can move on to the technical design phase.

Plans for building Hope-X, one of the vehicles proposed to supply the international space station, had rested on the need to develop key technologies in three areas. While the proposed H- 2A rocket is planned to supply the necessary firepower to lift the 20 ton shuttle to LEO, NASDA scientists still had to learn how to de-orbit the vehicle and ensure re-entry and automatic landing.

The Automatic Flight Landing Experiment (Alflex) trials, held this summer at Woomera in Australia, confirmed Japan's capability to land an unpiloted vehicle, said Kazuo Joko, Senior engineer of NASDA's space systems recovery systems office. The trials, which packed 13 tests in two phases between July 7 and August 15, fitted one of the most important missing pieces in the technological know-how jigsaw puzzle. How to glide Hope-X home? "Automatic landing is not a recent technology. But Japan lacks a civilian avionics industry, and our fighters don't use GPS. (Before Alflex) we had no automatic landing technology," said Nakayasu.