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

[Barrington Bond]

Spaceflight News , August Year ?

 

[martinbayer]

Re: MBB LART

Note that the picture shows an early version of the SAENGER II TSTO (which, contrary to the article text, had airbreathing turboramjets in the first stage) rather than LART, which was an SSTO with an airbreathing rocket engine.

Martin

 

[Barrington Bond]

Re: MBB LART

Perhaps confusion with Sanger projects of Sixties?

Anyone got a picture of LART?

Regards,
Barry

 

[RanulfC]

Re: MBB LART

Ok, I'll bite: "LART"??
Liquid Air Rocket... something? Not familiar with the acronym...

Randy

 

[fightingirish]

Re: MBB LART

Think German!


LART = (Einstufiger) LuftAtmender Raketen-Träger

LART was a MBB/ERNO airbreathing horizontal takeoff / horizontal landing single stage to orbit proposal from the mid-1980s. Largely similar to the BAe HOTOL.

Manufacturer: MBB. Core Diameter: 28.00 m (91.00 ft). Total Length: 66.30 m (217.50 ft).

Source: www.astronautix.com

 

[RanulfC]

Re: MBB LART

Think German!


LART = (Einstufiger) LuftAtmender Raketen-Träger

LART was a MBB/ERNO airbreathing horizontal takeoff / horizontal landing single stage to orbit proposal from the mid-1980s. Largely similar to the BAe HOTOL.

Manufacturer: MBB. Core Diameter: 28.00 m (91.00 ft). Total Length: 66.30 m (217.50 ft).

Source: www.astronautix.com

Oh sure, blame a 'fer-in' language and all... next you'll try telling me that it really is "OTAN" and not "NATO" on one side of the plane simply because someone got lazy and just did a "cut-and-paste" without reversing the image...
(USAFE joke folks )

Randy

 

[martinbayer]

Re: MBB LART

The 'core diameter' given in the Astronautix site is really the wing span. Attached is a (unfortunately fairly crude) picture of an early configuration.

Martin

 

[flateric]

Re: MBB LART

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[Michel Van]

Re: MBB LART

I look in archive and found some stuff

That Spaceflight News Picture show older Sänger version
MBB was studies around 1987
Sänger 01/51 turbojet + Ramjet + Rocket engines
Sänger 05/51 horizontal take off
Sänger 11/01 Ramjet + Rocket engines
Sänger 12/61 Rocket engines vertical take off tandem
Sänger 16/51 Sled, Ramjet + Rocket engines

LART Baseline - 275 tons takeoff weight, 10 tons payload, crew of 2
Alternative design
210 tons takeoff weight, 7 tons payload, crew of 2
400 tons takeoff weight, 15 tons payload ,crew of 2

Original Source
MBB "Sänger - An advanced Europan Space Transport System" Studien Ergebinisbericht, April 1967
MBB, D.E. Koelle, W Kleinau "Singel-Stage Ballisitc Reusable Cargo Vehicle Analysis" Int, Conf. SPACE TEC. Genf, may 1986
MBB, D.E. Koelle "Launch Vehicle Evolution from Mulitstage expendables to Singel Stage Recusables" IAF-85-480 September 1985

My source only quoted those sources only so you have to look for three above for more information.
Willi Hallmann, Wilfried Ley "Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik" publisher Hanser 1988, ISBN 3-446-15130-3