HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane
by
Dan Sharp
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HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane
Tempest Books
ISBN: 9781911704294
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...
1980s
british aerospace plc
cold war
department of trade and industry
early 1990s
great britain
ministry of defence
post-cold war
rolls-royce
royal aircraft establishment
single-stage-to-orbit
space age
space race
spaceplane
ssto
strategic defense initiative
I stumbled upon this while reading Edward Hujsak's 1994 The Future of U.S. Rocketry. ULLV stands for "Ultra Large Launch Vehicle"
This is a concept by the "Perigee West Company of La Jolla, California", which Edward Hujsak happened to be the president of, the company got several hundred...
cold war
department of defense
early 1990s
heavy lift vehicle
late 1980s
nasa
nuclear rockets
post-cold war
single-stage-to-orbit
ssto
super-heavy-launch-vehic
ullv
united states
ASPEN BACKGROUND
In the 1950s and 1960s, many potential uses of nuclear power were explored, such as NTRs. An NTR uses a nuclear reactor to heat a working fluid, such as hydrogen, and exhaust this fluid in a nozzle for thrust. Many studies of this technology were conducted, and prototypes were...
cold war
early 1960s
los alamos scientific laboratory
nasa
nuclear powered aircraft
nuclear rockets
ramjet
single-stage-to-orbit
space race
spaceplane
ssto
turbojet
united states
united states air force
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