single-stage-to-orbit

  1. Michel Van

    Sidereus SSTO micro sat launcher

    Siderius is a Italian company that works on Micro sat launcher that brings 10~13 kg payload into orbit design as reusable single stage to orbit rocket using Kerolox engines View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cq1WOT8e4 source https://www.sidereus.space/eos/
  2. athpilot

    McDonnell Douglas X-33 SSTO Reusable Launch Vehicle

    "Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV). McDonnell Douglas submitted a vertical landing configuration design which used liquid oxygen/hydrogen engines. NASA considered design submissions from Rockwell, Lockheed Martin, and McDonnell Douglas. NASA selected Lockheed Martin’s...
  3. newsdeskdan

    HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane by Dan Sharp

    HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane by Dan Sharp Now available for pre-order here: HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane Tempest Books ISBN: 9781911704294 Format: Hardback Pages: 424 The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...
  4. TheKutKu

    Euclid ULLV SSTO

    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...
  5. TomS

    Radian SSTO Spaceplane

    Here we go again, folks. Aerospace company chasing VC money with promise of a miracle -- SSTO from a runway to space and back. This time, for sure, Rocky. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/radian-announces-plans-to-build-one-of-the-holy-grails-of-spaceflight/
  6. Michel Van

    ARCA Haas 2CA rocket (SSTO with aerospike engine)

    ARCA Space Corporation is a New Mexico-based aerospace company It was founded in 1999 as a non-governmental organization in Romania by Dumitru Popescu That want to build a SSTO that launch 100 kg (220lbs) of payload to low earth orbit. it feature a linear Aerospike engine called "Executor" is...
  7. flateric

    LASL ASPEN (Aerospace Plane With Nuclear Engines) SSTO (1961)

    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...
  8. B

    MBB/ERNO (Einstufiger) LuftAtmender Raketen-Träger (LART)

    Spaceflight News , August Year ?
  9. Orionblamblam

    Convair Nexus SSTO

    From back when rockets were supposed to be big, 1963, comes the Convair "Nexus." A single stage to orbit hydrogen-oxygen booster with one *million* pounds of payload. As a bonus, the hocky-puck-shaped vehicle was to be recoverable and resuable. The computer rendering is of a 1/288 scale model...
  10. Michel Van

    S-IVB as reusable SSTO

    Around end 1960's Douglas proposed several projects for reuse of S-IVB Stage the final Idea was a reusable S-IVB with Aerospike engine to use as upperstage on Saturn launcher or as SSTO got some one more info (like payload) on that proposal ? thanks in advance
  11. hesham

    NASA/Langley SpaceJet Concept

    Hi, here is a shuttle concept using detachable turbojet.
  12. Michel Van

    Douglas ROMBUS

    Philip Bono master piece "Reusable Orbital Module-Booster & Utility Shuttle"from 1964 http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rombus.htm is SSTO (VTOVL) with payload 450 tons in 185 km Orbit. with a plug nozzle rocket engine design, used also as heat shield during atmospheric reentry. most of LH2 fuel...
  13. K

    McDonnell Aerospace Plane

    According to Paul Czysz, he claimed that McDonnell Aerospace had an aerospace plane that probably first flew in 1963 and entered service in 1964 flying until at least 1979. I was told the plane had a smaller payload than the Space-Shuttle. It to the best of my knowledge was a single-stage to...
  14. A

    Aerospaceplane (1958-1963)

    Atempt to make a SSTO with a LACE system. air coming from the intake was pumped in tanks, oxygen was separated from the rest of the air, then went to fuel the engine (burning with hydrogen). First atempt at LACE / ACES long before HOTOL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospaceplane I would...
  15. flateric

    National Aero-Space Plane - NASP - X-30

    Thread to discuss configurations of X-30National Aero-Space Plane [Aero-Space Plane is a correct official writing] from various contractors. General Dynamics proporsal graphics.
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