A preliminary list of technical objectives includes, but is not limited to:  

• the architecture design and analysis of current and future space transportation and exploration vehicles 
• flight vehicles engineering  
• flight physics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics 
• re-usability, demisability, hypersonic flight in atmosphere
• (re-)entry engineering and technologies, including TPS and decelerators 
• logistics, infrastructure and services enabling and supporting new transportation and exploration concepts