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    Single-stage-to-orbit (redirect from SSTO)
    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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    NASA believed it needed for single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicles (SSTO RLVs), such as metallic thermal protection systems, composite cryogenic fuel...
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    research project RLV-TD - an ongoing Indian project Reaction Engines Skylon SSTO A variant is an in-air-capture tow back system, advocated by a company called...
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    Rotary Rocket (redirect from Roton SSTO)
    Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) crewed spacecraft. The design was initially conceived by Bevin McKinney...
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    (NASP), part of a United States project to create a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spacecraft and passenger spaceliner. Started in 1986, it was cancelled in...
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  • "Saturn Application Single Stage to Orbit", was a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable launch system designed by Philip Bono's team in 1967. SASSTO was...
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    Take-Off and Landing, was a 1980s British design for a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceplane that was to be powered by an airbreathing jet engine. Development...
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    three-stage-to-orbit launcher and a hypothetical single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launcher. At liftoff the first stage is responsible for accelerating the...
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  • proposed cargo/passenger aircraft, 1995; not built MiG-2000 - ramjet-powered SSTO spaceplane, 1990s; lost to the Tupolev Tu-2000 MiG MFI objekt 1.44/1.42 -...
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  • CORONA is a single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle capable of performing vertical takeoff and landing. It was developed by OAO GRTs Makeyev from 1992 to...
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