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    Liquid Fly-back Booster (LFBB) was a German Aerospace Center's (DLR's) project concept to develop a liquid rocket booster capable of reuse for Ariane...
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    immersion. Liquid Flyback Booster concepts date back to the early 1970s. Original Shuttle boosters were massive piloted fly-back boosters. The concept...
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  • VSB-30 rocket. Liquid Fly-back Booster (LFBB) was a German Aerospace Center's (DLR's) project concept to develop a liquid rocket booster capable of reuse...
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  • Stoke Space noted various developments with the booster and second stage's design. The rocket's booster will consist of seven engines designed and manufactured...
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  • First Stage (RFS), and the liquid fly-back booster. Each of these concept vehicles consisted of a reusable winged booster, which was paired with an expendable...
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  • 000 kg (33,100 lb) while expended, 13,000 kg (28,700 lb) while landing the booster downrange and up to 8,000 kg (17,600 lb) with the first stage returning...
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    Heavy booster and a Starship spacecraft; both have a body made from SAE 304L stainless steel and are designed to hold liquid oxygen and liquid methane...
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  • was to produce a low-cost heavy launcher, a concept now called "big dumb booster." To lower the cost of operation, the rocket itself was launched from the...
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  • Reusable Booster System (RBS) launch vehicle began in 2012. A full-power test of the thrust chamber for Blue Origin BE-3 liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen...
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    weight. This would allow a vehicle to fly to low Earth orbit without the need for the sort of external boosters and fuel tanks used by the Space Shuttle...
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    several other heavy components (a large external tank, plus two solid rocket boosters), VentureStar was to be simply inspected in a hangar like an airplane....
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  • 000 lbf (1112 kN) thrust by 2020.[needs update] Baikal (rocket booster) Liquid fly-back booster, a 1999–2004 study for Ariane Reusable launch system Rocket-based...
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    production, the Zenit boosters were in use until 2017. The four strap-on liquid-fuel boosters, which burned kerosene and liquid oxygen, were the basis...
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    of recoverable solid rocket boosters (SRBs), and the expendable external tank (ET) containing liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The Space Shuttle was...
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    around 120 kN (or 27,000 lbf). Eurofighter Typhoon Bloodhound LSR Liquid fly-back booster (Cancelled) Data from Rolls-Royce plc Type: Afterburning turbofan...
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    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 hypersonic jet. The...
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    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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    S-IC stage would allow the booster to fly back to the Kennedy Space Center, where technicians would then refurbish the booster (by replacing only the five...
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    vehicles much like the Ares I design, with liquid rocket second stages stacked above segmented solid rocket booster (SRB) first stages. The variants that were...
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    make the Bell X-1 the first aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound. The XLR11 used ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen. By November 1960, Reaction Motors...
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    recovery and re-use of first-stage boosters and increase the production rate. Each Block 5 booster is designed to fly ten times with only minor maintenance...
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    9 boosters 326 times. Individual boosters have flown as many as 22 flights. Both stages are powered by SpaceX Merlin engines, using cryogenic liquid oxygen...
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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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    fly-back booster Energia II ("Uragan") - an alternative Buran launch system concept OK-GLI - another Buran spacecraft version Liquid Fly-back Booster...
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    studied between 1996 and 2004, with an RS-68 engine core and liquid fly back rocket boosters.  This article incorporates public domain material from websites...
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  • Comparison of orbital launchers families Liquid fly-back booster, a cancelled DLR project to develop reusable boosters for Ariane 5 Reusable launch system...
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  • Orbex is currently developing a light launch vehicle called Prime, and its booster (first stage) is planned to be reusable. The rocket's diameter is 1.45 m...
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  • Center studied reusable VTHL Liquid Fly-back Boosters from 1999. Design was intended to replace Ariane 5 solid rocket boosters. The U.S. government-funded...
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    flew its final mission on 5 July 2023. List of Ariane launches Liquid fly-back booster Comparison of orbital launchers families Diamant Europa (rocket)...
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    Common Booster Core, allowing ULA to reuse manufacturing equipment. It uses two BE-4 engines built by Blue Origin that burn liquid oxygen and liquid methane...
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