Title :
The Virtual SpacePlane
Author :
Stytz, Martin R. ; Banks, Sheila B. ; Johnson, Troy D. ; Lewis, John M. ; Rothermel, Scott A.
Abstract :
The paper discusses the Virtual SpacePlane, a virtual prototype of the US Air Force´s Manned SpacePlane, which operates in a realistic distributed virtual environment. The Manned SpacePlane (MSP) project is in the initial stages of evaluating the benefit of using military spaceplanes for a variety of low-earth orbit and atmospheric missions. The baseline assumption for the MSP project is that we will need to achieve safe, reliable, affordable, and routine access to space for short notice and worldwide deployment of space assets in the near future
Keywords :
aerospace computing; distributed processing; military computing; user interfaces; virtual reality; MSP project; Manned SpacePlane project; US Air Force; Virtual SpacePlane; atmospheric missions; low-earth orbit missions; military spaceplanes; realistic distributed virtual environment; virtual prototype; Application software; Atmospheric modeling; Computer architecture; Containers; Databases; Rendering (computer graphics); Satellites; Space technology; Virtual environment; Virtual prototyping;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
