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Hermes’ Legacy: A Continued Mission of Sorts

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Although Hermes was not to be, some elements of its mission were retained in later projects. Its envisaged launcher went on to become successful in its own right while technologies that were intended to fly on the spaceplane found applications in new projects. The shape developed for Hermes also lives on in a number of current projects, one of which may actually see the silhouette of the spaceplane in orbit one before long.

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    Luc van den Abeelen

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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). Hermes’ Legacy: A Continued Mission of Sorts. In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_18

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