Frank Taylor is a mechanical engineer, trained at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He is Director of Technology—Space Exploration Systems, Sierra Nevada Corporation, which is headquartered in Sparks, NV, although he works at the SNC facility in Louisville, CO. He has been part of the development team of Dream Chaser for NASA’s CRS2 program from the beginning concept in 2004 and continuing today. He has more than 32 years of aerospace experience while working at the Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works on YF-22, X-33, JSF and other vehicles; Scaled Composites on several aircraft both crewed and RPV; ATK-COI on composite and ceramic structures for Aircraft, Launch Vehicles, Missiles and Small Satellites. |
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is pleased to be presenting an overview of its Dream Chaser Cargo System spacecraft program at the Café Sci.
The Dream Chaser is a reusable, lifting-body spacecraft capable of autonomous flight being built here in the Denver area. Dream Chaser is the only lifting-body spacecraft capable of a runway landing anywhere in the world.
The Dream Chaser Cargo System is designed to deliver up to 5,500 kg of pressurized and unpressurized cargo to the ISS (International Space Station) with the ability to conduct orbital disposal services and responsively return pressurized cargo at less than 1.5 g’s to a gentle runway landing.
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