Single-stage to orbit
... orbit A single-stage to orbit (or SSTO) is a vehicle that could achieve an ... refers to reusable single stage vehicles. No SSTO launch vehicles have ever been constructed. Current ... X, the X-33, and the Roton SSTO. However none of them have come close to achieving orbit. Approaches to SSTO There have been various approaches to SSTO, including pure rockets that are launched ...
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Single-stage to orbit (Engineering wiki)
... orbit A single-stage to orbit (or SSTO) vehicle would be a vehicle that could ... believed by some that reusable vehicles, particularly SSTO reusable vehicles, would lead to much reduced ... and allow aircraft-like operations. No actual SSTO launch vehicles have been constructed - current orbital ... X , the X-33 , and the Roton SSTO ; but none of them have been anywhere ... technical and/or economic difficulties. [edit] Why SSTO? Many in the aerospace community have ...
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Reusable launch system
... rocketships which could launch and land vertically (SSTO VTVL), or single-stage reusable rocketplanes which could launch and land horizontally (SSTO HTHL). The realities of early engine technology ... the problems could be surpassed. Before VTVL SSTO designs came the partially reusable multi-stage ... The pioneer in the field of VTVL SSTO, Philip Bono, worked at Douglas. Bono proposed ... his vehicles combined similar innovations to achieve SSTO capability. Bono proposed: Plug nozzle engines ...
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Talk:Single-stage to orbit
... neat, but have no obvious connection to SSTO. The article doesn't even define what ... of hardware, and NONE of it was SSTO. For all these very serious criticisms i ... yet. But someone, please do. Material from SSTO, take what you need: Short for Single ... massive overhauls", given in the subheading "Why SSTO". This is wrong for several reasons: (1 ... 2) The relationship of abort modes to SSTO is tenuous and shouldn't be ...
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Talk:Rotary Rocket
... The article tries to present the Roton SSTO as "almost making it". A first-hand ... good Isp.WolfKeeper Fantasies like the Roton SSTO cause a great deal of confusion among ... Rotary Rocket redirects to this article, Roton SSTO. However, I feel that this article would ... the company that built it, whereas Roton SSTO refers only to the unrealized, unbuilt vehicle ... and the Atmopsheric Test vehicle); the Roton SSTO did not. Any thoughts? Willy Logan ...
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Talk:Tier One
... first reentry was a feature of the SSTO designs. By the time NASA redesigned the ... was built.) The development costs of the SSTO versions were believed to be very high ... to conventional (nose-first) airflow. Additionally the SSTO versions would have required an untried method ... survive re-entry at all. Lastly, the SSTO designs still would have faced high-sonic ... mythology that has arisen around them, the SSTO versions were nothing more than paper - ...
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Lockheed Martin X-33
... single stage to orbit reusable launch vehicles (SSTO RLVs), such as metallic thermal protection systems ... viability of a single stage to orbit (SSTO) design. An SSTO craft would not require external fuel tanks ... the business case for a full-scale SSTO RLV, called VentureStar, that would be developed ... for single-stage-to-orbit operations. A SSTO craft must reach what is called ...
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David Urie
... and heading the Single State to Orbit (SSTO) and X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV ... feasible which led to the Lockheed Martin SSTO design approach. As a Director of the Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works SSTO/RLV Advanced Technology Demonstration Program, Urie conceived ... multi-company team encompassing all aspects of SSTO/RLV. Urie was also Program Manager of ...
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Tripropellant rocket
... cheaper. A single stage to orbit design SSTO might avoid some of this refurbishment, and ... it becomes harder to use both fuels. SSTO rockets could simply carry two sets of ... engines this might be reasonable, but an SSTO design requires a very high mass fraction ... engines in the early 1990s for a SSTO spaceplane called MAKS , but both the engines ...
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Talk:EADS Phoenix
... the use of advanced RLVs. Things like SSTO VTVL were dismissed allegedly because EU engine technology wasn't good enough, SSTO VTHL was dismissed because it was considered ... which was basically Hopper. Basically a quasi SSTO HTHL vehicle which uses rail launch boost ...
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