Sentence examples for stage to orbit from inspiring English sources

A drawing of the Black Horse vehicle is shown in Fig. 6. Figure 6: Black Horse, a single stage to orbit vehicle using aerial propellant transfer.

This is not an attempt to solve the single stage to orbit problem by means of increasing Isp, but by decreasing Delta-v.

This paper describes the design of three NTR reactor engines designed for the single stage to orbit launch of payloads from 1 to 15 metric tons.

Because of these inert mass hits, horizontal takeoff and landing vehicle designs generally tend not to be pure single stage to orbit, but rely instead on sled launch or auxiliary boosters to reduce gross weight.

In principle, a space launcher could reach Earth orbit using only one stage, and in fact there have been several attempts to develop a reusable "single stage to orbit" vehicle.

SKYLON is a fully reusable single stage to orbit launch system that is enabled by the unique performance characteristic of the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine and is under active development.

Kistler Resuable 2-Stage To Orbit 7 30-9 7 30-943-800.

This "single-stage-to-orbit" feat can (just about) be performed by a rocket engine.

When complete, the Roton was to be the world's first single-stage-to-orbit, fully reusable rocket.

Kistler Aerospace Corporation is developing the K-1, a fully reusable, two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle.

Single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) aircraft can take off and land on conventional runways but can also be flown into an orbital flight path.