A single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body using only propellants and fluids and without expending tanks, engines...
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order to achieve orbital velocity. It is intermediate between a three-stage-to-orbit launcher and a hypothetical single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launcher...
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Multistage rocket (redirect from Three-stage-to-orbit)
is required to reach orbital speed. Single-stage-to-orbit designs are sought, but have not yet been demonstrated. The reason multi-stage rockets are required...
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designed by the Tupolev design bureau. It was intended to test technologies for a single-stage-to-orbit aerospaceplane and also the Tupolev Tu-360 intercontinental...
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Single stage may refer to: Single stage game, a non-repeated extensive form game Single-stage-to-orbit, a vehicle which reaches orbit from the surface...
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McDonnell Douglas DC-X (category Single-stage-to-orbit)
Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the...
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Spacecraft (redirect from In orbit)
spacecraft except single-stage-to-orbit vehicles cannot get into space on their own, and require a launch vehicle (carrier rocket). On a sub-orbital spaceflight...
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Booster (rocketry) (redirect from Booster stage)
necessary to launch spacecraft into low Earth orbit (absent a single-stage-to-orbit design), and are especially important for a space vehicle to go beyond...
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Lockheed Martin X-33 (category Single-stage-to-orbit)
flight-test a range of technologies that NASA believed it needed for single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicles (SSTO RLVs), such as metallic thermal protection...
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altitudes. It belongs to the class of altitude compensating nozzle engines. Aerospike engines were proposed for many single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) designs. They...
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