lifting reentry

The computer failure meant that the capsule would not be able to perform a closed-loop lifting reentry as planned.

Air Force Precision Recovery Including Maneuvering Entry (PRIME) Program to perform the postflight trajectory reconstruction and analysis of the SV-5D maneuverable lifting reentry vehicle.

In addition to the X-15 Program, AFFTC and NASA also teamed up to explore a new concept called "lifting reentry" with a series of wingless lifting body aircraft.

The suborbital Hopper was a FESTIP (Future European Space Transportation Investigations Programme) system study design A test project, the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), has demonstrated lifting reentry technologies and will be extended under the PRIDE programme.