The Reusable Booster System (RBS) was a United States Air Force research program, circa 2010 to 2012, to develop a new prototype vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing...
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suborbital reusable launch vehicles (RLV) to begin flight testing their reusable booster technologies in 2012. Two versions of the prototype reusable test rockets...
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launch vehicle parts aimed for reuse. Smaller parts such as rocket engines and boosters can also be reused, though reusable spacecraft may be launched on...
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reusable space systems Corrosion Science 2019 Thompson, Loren. "SpaceX Abandons Plan To Make Astronaut Spacecraft Reusable; Boeing Sticks With Reuse Plan"...
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: 15 A two-stage-to-orbit system operating a dedicated reusable orbiter. German Aerospace Center studied Liquid Fly-back Boosters as a part of future launcher...
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Stoke Space Nova (redirect from Nova (fully reusable launch vehicle))
Stoke Space / 100% reusable rockets / USA. Retrieved 2023-10-05. Foust, Jeff (2021-12-15). "Stoke Space raises $65 million for reusable launch vehicle development"...
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for the Khrunichev Space centre, reusing the flyback and control system for the reusable Buran orbiter. The booster would be equipped with an RD-191 rocket...
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SpaceX Starship (redirect from ITS interplanetary booster)
project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars. Starship's two stages are the Super Heavy booster and the Starship...
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SpaceX Super Heavy (redirect from Super Heavy (booster))
Raptor engines called the Interplanetary Transport System. It would have two stages, a reusable booster and spacecraft. The stages' tanks were to be made...
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New Glenn (category Proposed reusable launch systems)
under parachutes on land, to be reused on future missions. Engine testing for the (then-named) Reusable Booster System (RBS) launch vehicle began in 2012...
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Takeoff and landing (section Zero length launch system)
processes and other attributes of a reusable booster system, or RBS. Air Force officials envision an RBS that includes a reusable rocket and an expendable upper...
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Lockheed Martin X-33 (redirect from Reusable Launch Vehicle program (NASA))
operated reusable launch vehicle. The X-33 would flight-test a range of technologies that NASA believed it needed for single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch...
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A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The manufacture...
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Terran R is a heavy-lift two-stage, partially reusable launch vehicle under development by Relativity Space. The vehicle is partially constructed with...
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Vulcan Centaur (redirect from United Launch Alliance SMART reuse)
implements its proposed SMART reuse system. The Vulcan first stage is similar in size as the Delta family's Common Booster Core (Vulcan is about 0.3-meter...
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List of Starship launches (category Proposed reusable launch systems)
range of space missions. Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars. SpaceX calls the...
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Emergency Braking System Redundant Braking System, a type of parachute system Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn, Swiss company Reusable Booster System, a United...
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Hopper was one of several proposals for a reusable launch vehicle (RLV) developed by the ESA. The proposed reusable launch vehicles were to be used for the...
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Falcon Heavy (category Partially reusable space launch vehicles)
if only the two side boosters are recovered. The partially reusable Falcon Heavy falls into the heavy-lift range of launch systems, capable of lifting...
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the Energia which has eight boosters and multiple stages. The Energia was designed to launch the Soviet "Buran" reusable shuttle, and for that reason...
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Rocket Lab Electron (category Expendable space launch systems)
stage twice and is working towards the capability of reusing the booster. The Flight 26 (F26) booster has featured the first helicopter catch recovery attempt...
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Rocket Lab Neutron (category Reusable launch systems)
delivering a payload of 13,000 kg (28,700 lb) to low Earth orbit in a partially reusable configuration, and will focus on the growing megaconstellation satellite...
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landing of the mission's two side boosters. 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 '20 '21 '22 Falcon 9 Block 5 (new) Falcon 9 Block 5 (reused) Falcon Heavy 10 20 30 40...
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The Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft (Chinese: 可重复使用试验航天器; pinyin: Kěchóngfùshǐyòng shìyàn hángtiānqì; lit. 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft')...
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Falcon 9 (category Partially reusable space launch vehicles)
much. The reusable booster was developed using systems and software tested on the Falcon 9 prototypes. The Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) replaced...
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Columbia disaster. "Co-optimized Booster for Reusable Applications".: 139 The RS-83 was a rocket engine design for a reusable LH2/LOX rocket larger and more...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 (redirect from Spiral (aerospace system))
Known as "50 / 50", the idea was that the spaceplane and a liquid fuel booster stage would be launched at high altitude from the back of a custom-built...
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Falcon 9 Block 5 (category Partially reusable space launch vehicles)
Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by...
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great to justify it. Spaceflight portal SpaceX Dragon 2 SpaceX reusable launch system development program Abbott, Joseph (22 May 2014). "Grasshopper to...
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Ariane Next (category Reusable launch systems)
Ariane Next—also known as SALTO (reusable strategic space launcher technologies and operations)—is a future European Space Agency rocket being developed...
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