List of spaceplanes

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A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight.

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| ASSET || USA || Rocket launch || Experimental || 1963 || Prototype || || Uncrewed reentry test vehicle.

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| Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar || USA || Rocket launch || Experimental || 1963 || Project || || Crewed

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| Boeing X-37 || USA || Rocket launch || Utility || 2010 || Prototype || || Robotic orbiter operated by the United States Armed Forces.

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| BOR-4 || USSR || Rocket launch || Experimental || 1982 || Prototype || || Uncrewed reentry test vehicle.

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| Buran Shuttle || USSR || Rocket launch || Utility || 1988 || Prototype || || Crewed orbiter, launched by the Energia rocket. Only one robotic flight was made.

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| Dawn Aerospace Mk.2 ||The Netherlands / New Zealand||Suborbital rocket launch || Experimental || 2020|| Prototype|| || Uncrewed suborbital space plane. Horizontal takeoff and landing.

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| Dream Chaser ||USA|| Rocket launch || Utility || 2004|| Project|| || Uncrewed orbiter, originally intended as a crew vehicle. Launched by a Vulcan Centaur rocket.

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|HOTOL || UK || SSTO || Utility || 1988 || Project || 0 || Airbreathing rocket engine.

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| Interim HOTOL || UK || Air launch || Utility || 1991 || Project || 0 || Launched from the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the Buran air lift carrier aircraft.

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| Martin X-23 PRIME || USA || Rocket launch || Experimental || 1966 || Prototype || || Uncrewed atmospheric re-entry test vehicle

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| North American X-15 || USA || Air launch || Experimental || 1959 || Prototype || 3 || Air-dropped from a Boeing B-52.

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| Sanger Silbervogel || Germany || Composite || Bomber || 1944 || Project || 0 || Sub-orbital. Mockup and wind tunnel models only.

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| Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne || USA || Composite || Transport || 2004 || Prototype || 1 || First civilian-funded reusable spacecraft, lifted by White Knight to about 14 km

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| Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo || USA || Composite || Transport || 2010 || Prototype || 2 || For Virgin Galactic commercial testing.

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| Skylon || UK || SSTO || Utility || 1993 || Project || || Continuation of cancelled HOTOL.

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| Space Rider || ESA || Lifting body || Experimental || 2021 || Project || || Robotic, orbital

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| Space Shuttle || USA || Rocket launch || Utility || 1981 || Retired || 4–8 || Crewed orbiter.

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| XCOR Lynx (formerly Xerus) || USA || Suborbital || Experimental || 2008 || Project || 0 || Horizontal takeoff and landing.

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See also

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