Black Horse

[Archibald]

The theory works - it has been re-proofed five times by my little self, see attached. Now the practicality... that's another story. Even more with SH-Starship as the great TSTO-RLV benchmark.

 

[SpaceMonk]

Not very futuristic… https://www.sandboxx.us/news/new-space-force-painting-offers-a-glimpse-of-space-warfare/

 

[publiusr]

That looks a lot like my idea of of a Buran-like Shuttle-2 orbiter.

No way it could reach orbit on its own.

Roc could carry something like Black Horse as an all liquid space plane for Virgin--but that is likely also suborbital.

Roc/Black Horse might be okay for HOT EAGLE/SUSTAIN?

Not as unwieldy as Starship SuperHeavy---but I would want a JMOB/SeaBase for it.