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{{Short description|Proposed hydrolox rocket engine intended to surpass the RS-68}} ...ptember 2002|title=Main Engine Candidates for a Second Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle|publisher=NASA|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/w ...

[[File:Shuttle-c launch painting.jpg|thumb|right|An artist's conception of a Shuttle-C launching at ...ef name="globalsec">{{cite web | url = http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sts-c.htm | title = Shuttle-C | publisher = GlobalSecurity.org | accessdate ...

...able launch system|reusable]] vertical landing [[single-stage to orbit]] [[launch vehicle]]s. As a visionary designer, he is credited with inventing the firs ...ed mostly of dead weight that decreased launch payload mass. He patented a reusable [[plug nozzle]] rocket engine which had dual use as a heat shield for [[atm ...

{{Short description|Japanese proposed manned spacecraft}} '''Fuji''' ('''{{lang|ja|ふじ}}''') was a crewed [[space capsule]] proposed by Japan's [[National Space Development Agency of Japan|National Space Deve ...

A '''two-stage-to-orbit''' ('''TSTO''') or '''two-stage rocket''' is a [[launch vehicle]] in which two distinct [[multistage rocket|stages]] provide propul ...TSTO, due to the use of strap-on [[Booster (rocketry)|booster rockets]] at launch. These are dropped early on in the flight and may or may not be considered ...

...ifferent from that used by Progress. A launch vehicle first places a Parom reusable inter-orbit "tug" into a 200&nbsp;km orbit. As this spacecraft will not car ...depressurized platform featuring large scientific equipment and auxiliary systems, i.e., solar batteries that cannot be stored inside the airtight module".<r ...

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==Costs of current systems (rockets)== {{see also|Space launch market competition}} ...

...crew transport and contingency cargo transport. It was part of the [[Space Launch Initiative]]. ....<ref>{{cite web|title=NASA's Space Launch Initiative: The Next Generation Launch Technology Program|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/pdf/172379main ...

[[Image:Delta IV Heavy rocket on launch pad.jpg|250px|thumb|A [[Delta IV Heavy]], featuring three [[Common Booster The [[National Launch System]] study (1991-1992) looked at future launchers in a modular (cluster ...

...osed [[European Space Agency]] (ESA) orbital [[spaceplane]] and [[reusable launch vehicle]]. The Hopper was a [[FESTIP]] (Future European Space Transportatio ...involved the construction and testing of a one-seventh scale model of the proposed Hopper. On 8 May 2004, a single test flight of the Phoenix was conducted at ...

{{Short description|1962 concept for a reusable, sea-launched rocket}} | function = Orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle ...

...on-systems.net/dusrm/app4/x-37.html Boeing X-37 / X-40 page at Designation-Systems.Net]</ref> ...7's systems in order to "reduce the cost and risk of future reusable space launch vehicle system".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gelzer |first=Christian |da ...

...gies that NASA believed it needed for [[single-stage-to-orbit]] [[reusable launch vehicle]]s (SSTO RLVs), such as metallic [[thermal protection system]]s, [[ ...scale model.<ref name="David">{{cite web|last=David|first= Leonard |title= Reusable rocket plane soars in test flight|publisher= NBC News|date= October 15, 200 ...

...nt depot]]s. Solar thermal propulsion is also a good candidate for use in reusable inter-orbital tugs, as it is a high-efficiency low-thrust system that can b ...em Development and Evaluation PSI-SR-1228 publisher AIAA July 2005]</ref> Systems with 10 to 100 N of thrust have been investigated by SART.<ref>[http://www. ...

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{{short description|Re-usable space launch system}} |cpl = <!--cost per launch, required--> ...

|sites = [[Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy]], [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39A]] ...the [[Space Shuttle]] by developing a re-usable [[spaceplane]] that could launch satellites into orbit at 1/10 of the cost. While the requirement was for an ...

...as a participant in plans for the [[Space Shuttle]] program as well as the proposed [[Space Station Freedom]] (later the [[ISS]]), and sought development of a ...launcher, though the full-scale HOPE would require substantial upgrades in launch performance.<ref name="Toshio 1998">{{cite journal |last1=Fukui |first1=Tos ...

{{About|the Soviet launch vehicle||Energia (disambiguation){{!}}Energia}} |function = [[Human-rated]] multi-purpose [[super heavy-lift launch vehicle]]<!-- it has 100-ton LEO capacity --> ...