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Future-X PathfinderFuture-X PathfinderExperimental Flight Vehicles for the

Future of Space Transportation

Future-X PathfinderFuture-X Pathfinder

_ Flight vehicles and experiments to improve space launch and orbital transfer

• Improve safety• Improve reliability• Reduce cost


_ X-34X-34• Demonstrate

operational and vehicle technologies that lead to increased safety and reliability

– Air launched– Rocket powered– Horizontal landing


_ X-37X-37

• Demonstrate technologies for both orbital and reentry environments


_ Flight ExperimentsFlight Experiments• Flight testing technologies that enable safer,

lower cost transportation systems that are reliable, simpler and offer more operable space– Autonomous Abort Landing System– Sharp-B2– Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System– Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring– Cryogenic Propellant Gauge– Small Payload Experiment– Hall Effect Thruster– Composite LOx Tank