The Virtual SpacePlane

Author

Stytz, Martin R. ; Banks, Sheila B. ; Johnson, Troy D. ; Lewis, John M. ; Rothermel, Scott A.

Volume

21

Issue

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

52

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.909014

Filename

909014