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LII Air-launched Spaceplane
Credit: Mark Lindroos
Russian air-launched winged orbital launch vehicle. In 1973 LII (the Gromov Experimental Flight Institute at Zhukovsky) designed several alternate spaceplane concepts for air-launch from the An-225 transport. These were similar to the various MAKS concepts.
Status: Design 1993.
Crew Size: 1.
Family:
aircraft-launched,
orbital launch vehicle,
Spaceplane.
Country:
Russia.
Launch Vehicles:
LII Spaceplane.
Agency:
LII.
