Dream Chaser Orbiter
Dream chaser is set to become the next addition to the fleet of uncrewed cargo vehicles that ferry supplies to the international space station iss.
Dream chaser orbiter. Dream chaser is about 1 4 the size of a shuttle orbiter. Dream chaser will be flying at least six missions to the iss in the 2020s following nasa s contract award to snc along with spacex and orbital atk for the crs2 missions. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle the dream chaser space system to be produced after the cargo variant is operational is capable of carrying up to seven people and cargo to and from low earth orbit. Originally designed for the commercial crew program ccp it could carry up to seven crewmembers.
Dream chaser is a lifting body spacecraft that can fly like a plane in an atmospheric flight. Four different freighters currently do the.