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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Tupolev OOS (category Single-stage-to-orbit)
    The Tupolev OOS was a Soviet concept for an air-launched, single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane. The OOS's carrier aircraft, the Antonov AKS, was a twin-fuselage...
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    SABRE (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    engine is being designed to achieve single-stage-to-orbit capability, propelling the proposed Skylon spaceplane to low Earth orbit. SABRE is an evolution...
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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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