Lockheed Skunk Works K-10 design (aka ABR or Aeroballistic Rocket)

[Triton]

Artist's impression of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Aero-Ballistic Rocket, SSTO, concept in orbit.

Source:
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/forums/spaceflight-image-of-the-week-23rd-january-6540.aspx

 

[RGClark]

The X-33/Venturestar was derived from this.

Bob Clark

 

[Stargazer]

The X-33/Venturestar was derived from this.

A comment from the original Flight page:

this is the so called K-10 design (aka ABR or Aeroballistic Rocket), an evolution of the SSTO concept before the definitive X-33 Venture Star project.

Also it was only Lockheed at the time, not Lockheed Martin...

Topic renamed.

 

[Antonio]

K-10 design? Does anybody if a CL series number existed for that design?

I'd love to work as a Lockheed Martin archivist for free

 

[flateric]

Art @Triton's post by Eric Watanabe

The Lockheed Advanced Development Company [ed. "The Skunk Works"] designed
Aero-Ballistic Rocket (ABR) is a completely reusable Single-
Stage-to-Orbit launch vehicle capable of lifting 40,000
pounds of payload into low earth orbit, or 25,000 pounds to
Space Station Freedom. The ABR combines a liquid hydrogen /
liquid oxygen Linear Aerospike rocket with a lifting body
shape, allowing the vehicle to take off vertically and land
horizontally like the space shuttle.

 

[Stargazer]

K-10 design? Does anybody if a CL series number existed for that design?

I believe the CL- had long been abandoned at Lockheed by the time this design came to be.

Besides, I strongly doubt that Skunk Works would use a designation that was in the "normal series".