SNC'S DREAM CHASER: SUCCESSFUL FREE FLIGHT TEST

The Dream Chaser is being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems as a reusable automated cargo or passenger spaceplane. The cargo variant is meant to resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. The passenger variant will carry between 2 and 7 people to the ISS (or another space station in LEO). It will launch vertically on top of an Atlas V, Falcon Heavy or Ariane V rocket.


On NOV 11, it made a successful free flight test:





Here's a video simulating the Dream Chaser carrying crew to the ISS:








With its lifting body design it looks an awful lot like the Hermes, the ESA's cancelled project of a light shuttle system (which was meant to be carried to space on top of an Ariane rocket):




The nose seems to be modelled after the nose of the MiG 105.


MFBB.