Jean-Yves ANDRO, Florent LE BARILLIER

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Conference number: HiSST-2025-140

ALBATROS is a five years research project initiated in 2025 by ONERA in order to push the limits of military Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (Mach 20+ velocities, global range, multi-missions capability) in the strict context of conventional payloads. Especially, ALBATROS is planning to develop technologies and methodologies for materials & structures, planning-guidance-optimization of trajectories, aerothermodynamics, MDAO assisted design and to apply them to an optimized preliminary design. This first paper related to ALBATROS is reviewing some past long range boost-glide concepts (Silbervogel, Bell BOMI, Bell BRASS, Bell ROBO, McDonnell-Douglas Rheinberry, X-41 CAV, FOBS
systems), describing the possible missions (global conventional strike, global ISR, global payload release) and their flight profiles with a special focus on their technological challenges, and finally presenting some technological orientations (waverider typology, materials & structures based on ceramics and additive manufacturing, schematic arrangement of internal equipment) in the perspective of the first conceptual design of the glider.

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