Selection of a Carrier Aircraft and a Launch Method for Air Launching Space Vehicles

By Marti Sarigul-Klijn Ph.D., Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Ph.D., Gary C. Hudson, Bevin McKinney, AirLaunch LLC; Jim Voss, Phil Chapman, Transportational Space Corp.; Bob Morgan, Jim Tighe, Jason Kramb, Scaled Composites LLC; Ken Doyle, Mike Quayle, Protoflight LLC; Charlie Brown, Space Vector Crop.

Presented at the AIAA SPACE 2008 Conference and Exposition, San Diego, California, Sep. 9-11, 2008

Results of QuickReach™ Small Launch Vehicle Propulsion
Testing and Next Steps to Demonstration Flights

By Debra Facktor Lepore, President, AirLaunch LLC; and Ralph Ewig, Ph.D., Senior Engineer,
AirLaunch LLC

Presented at the Utah State Small Satellite Conference in August, 2008

Flight Testing of a Gravity Air Launch Method to Enable
Responsive Space Access

By Marti Sarigul-Klijn Ph.D., Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn Ph.D., Gary Hudson and
Livingston Holder, AirLaunch LLC; Dan Fritz, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF and
Chris Webber, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA; Gregg Leisman,
Major, USAF and Dale Shell, Space and Missile Systems Center, Detachment 12,
Kirtland Air Force Base; Maurice Gionfriddo, MPG Consultants, Westborough,
Massachusets

Presented at the AIAA Space 2007 Conference, September 20, 2007

Progress Toward First Flight of the QuickReach™ Small Launch Vehicle

By Debra Facktor Lepore, President, AirLaunch LLC and Joseph Padavano,
President, Delta Velocity

Presented at the Utah State Small Satellite Conference in August, 2007

AirLaunch’s QuickReach™ Small Launch Vehicle:  Development Status of Phase 2B

By Debra Facktor Lepore, President, AirLaunch LLC

Presented at The International Aeronautical Congress,
October 2-6, 2006

Gravity Air Launching of Earth-To-Orbit Space Vehicles

By Marti Sarigul-Klijn Ph.D., Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn Ph.D., Gary Hudson and
Livingston Holder, AirLaunch LLC; Gregg Leisman, Major, USAF and Dale Shell,
Space and Missile Systems Center, Detachment 12, Kirtland Air Force Base;
Chris Webber, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base

Presented at the AIAA Space 2006 Conference, September 19 – 21, 2006

Performance Modeling of Launch Vehicles utilizing Vapor Pressurization (VaPak) based Propulsion Systems

By Ralph Ewig, Ph.D, Bevin McKinney and Gary Hudson, AirLaunch LLC

Presented at the AIAA Space 2006 Conference, September 19 – 21, 2006

Falcon QuickReach™ - Airdrop Envelope Expansion to Enable Low-Cost Space Access

By Lt Col Dan Fritz, Chris Webber, 418th Flight Test Squadron Air Force Flight Test Center

Presented at the Society of Experimental Test Pilots Conference on September 29th, 2006

AirLaunch’s QuickReach™ Small Launch Vehicle:  Operationally Responsive Access to Space

By Debra Facktor Lepore, President, AirLaunch LLC and Joseph Padavano,
President, Delta Velocity

Presented at the Utah State Small Satellite Conference on August 17, 2006

Flight Testing of a New Earth-to-Orbit Air-Launch Method for Safety Launching Personnel and Cargo into Low Earth Orbit

By Marti Sarigul-Klijn and Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, University of California, Davis;
Bob Morgan, Jim Tighe and Arnaldo Leon, Scaled Composites; Gary Hudson and
Bevin McKinney, AirLaunch LLC; and David Gump, Transformational Space Corp.

Published in the Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 43, No. 3, May – June 2006
Presented at 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 8 - 12, 2006

QuickReach™ Responsive Launch System

By Gary Hudson, AirLaunch LLC

Presented at the AIAA Responsive Space Conference, April 24 – 27, 2006

Trade Studies for Air Launching a Small Launch Vehicle from a Cargo Aircraft

By Marti Sarigul-Klijn and Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Mechanical and
Aeronautical Engineering Department, University of California, Davis;
Gary Hudson and Bevin McKinney, AirLaunch LLC; Lyle Menzel,
Universal Space Lines LLC; and Eric Grabow, Space Vector Corporation

Presented at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 10 – 13, 2005