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A spaceplane incorporates aspects of both aeroplanes and spacecraft. Most concepts were only capable of sub-orbital spaceflight.
Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Status | No. | Notes |
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ASSET | USA | Rocket launch | Experimental | 1963 | Prototype | Uncrewed reentry test vehicle. | |
Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar | USA | Rocket launch | Experimental | 1963 | Project | Crewed | |
Boeing X-37 | USA | Rocket launch | Utility | 2010 | Prototype | Robotic orbiter operated by the United States Armed Forces. | |
BOR-4 | USSR | Rocket launch | Experimental | 1982 | Prototype | Uncrewed reentry test vehicle. | |
Buran Shuttle | USSR | Rocket launch | Utility | 1988 | Prototype | Crewed orbiter, launched by the Energia rocket. Only one robotic flight was made. | |
Dream Chaser | USA | Rocket launch | Utility | 2004 | Project | Uncrewed orbiter, originally intended as a crew vehicle. Launched by a Vulcan Centaur rocket. | |
HOTOL | UK | SSTO | Utility | 1988 | Project | 0 | Airbreathing rocket engine. |
Interim HOTOL | UK | Air launch | Utility | 1991 | Project | 0 | Launched from the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the Buran air lift carrier aircraft. |
Martin X-23 PRIME | USA | Rocket launch | Experimental | 1966 | Prototype | Uncrewed atmospheric re-entry test vehicle | |
North American X-15 | USA | Air launch | Experimental | 1959 | Prototype | 3 | Air-dropped from a Boeing B-52. |
Sanger Silbervogel | Germany | Composite | Bomber | 1944 | Project | 0 | Sub-orbital. Mockup and wind tunnel models only. |
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne | USA | Composite | Transport | 2004 | Prototype | 1 | First civilian-funded reusable spacecraft, lifted by White Knight to about 14 km |
Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo | USA | Composite | Transport | 2010 | Prototype | 2 | For Virgin Galactic commercial testing. |
Skylon | UK | SSTO | Utility | 1993 | Project | Continuation of cancelled HOTOL. | |
Space Rider | ESA | Lifting body | Experimental | 2021 | Project | Robotic, orbital | |
Space Shuttle | USA | Rocket launch | Utility | 1981 | Retired | 4–8 | Crewed orbiter. |
XCOR Lynx (formerly Xerus) | USA | Suborbital | Experimental | 2008 | Project | 0 | Horizontal takeoff and landing. |
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