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    HOTOL, for Horizontal 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...
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    on their own airborne rockets. One was by the United Kingdom, developing HOTOL in the same timeframe. With the appearance of the An-225 in the USSR and...
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  • single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceplane, known as HOTOL. In 1982, when work commenced on the HOTOL by several British companies, there was significant...
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  • Engines Ltd and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL, Reaction Engines Skylon and the Reaction Engines A2 hypersonic passenger...
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    projects to consider, aside from Saenger, these being the French Hermes and HOTOL. According to aerospace publication Flight International, from the onset...
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    amphibious aircraft, instead of using runways, use water. British Aerospace HOTOL Index of aviation articles Takeoff and landing "V/STOL - Was it a good idea...
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    series of LACE-like designs that started in the early/mid-1980s for the HOTOL project. The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with...
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    funding was stopped and the project cancelled. At around the same time, the HOTOL tried to use precooled jet engine technology, but failed to show significant...
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    Aerospace and the Soviet Ministry of Aviation Industry as a part of the Interim HOTOL program. It remains unbuilt. AKS Intended to carry the Tupolev OOS air-launch-to-orbit...
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    Europrop International) Rolls-Royce AE 2100 Rolls-Royce T56 Larch RB545 (HOTOL) RZ.2 AG9140 MT7 MT30 Rolls Royce RR4500 Spey SM1A and improved SM1C Olympus...
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  • Mustard was applied in various other avenues, the most prominent being the HOTOL spaceplane programme during the 1980s. During the 1940s and 1950s, the United...
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    II (Uragan) Falcon 1e Falcon 5 Nexus Hyperbola-2 HOPE-X Hopper / Phoenix HOTOL K-1 Liquid Fly-back Booster MAKS Reusable Booster System Roton Sea Dragon...
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  • with it. LACE was also the basis of the engines on the British Aerospace HOTOL design of the 1980s, but this did not progress beyond studies.[dubious –...
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    never constructed. In the 1980s, British Aerospace began development of HOTOL, an SSTO spaceplane powered by a revolutionary SABRE air-breathing rocket...
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  • re-usable SSTO spaceplane. The three founders had worked together on the HOTOL project, funding for which had been withdrawn the previous year, in 1988...
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    II (Uragan) Falcon 1e Falcon 5 Nexus Hyperbola-2 HOPE-X Hopper / Phoenix HOTOL K-1 Liquid Fly-back Booster MAKS Reusable Booster System Roton Sea Dragon...
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    configuration, and era NASA X-43 (essentially a scaled-down model) Tupolev Tu-2000 HOTOL – UK spaceplane design of the 1980s Chang, Kenneth (October 20, 2014). "25...
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  • written, in Western Khalkha as h, and in Eastern Khalkha as g; e.g. хөтөл hötöl (Central Khalkha), көтөл kötöl (Western Khalkha), гөтөл götöl (Eastern Khalkha)...
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    II (Uragan) Falcon 1e Falcon 5 Nexus Hyperbola-2 HOPE-X Hopper / Phoenix HOTOL K-1 Liquid Fly-back Booster MAKS Reusable Booster System Roton Sea Dragon...
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  • space programme was revived in 1982 when the British government funded the HOTOL project, an ambitious attempt at a re-usable space plane using air-breathing...
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  • embarked on their own national programs to produce spaceplanes, such as HOTOL and Hermes, while attempting to attract the backing of the multinational...
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  • II (Uragan) Falcon 1e Falcon 5 Nexus Hyperbola-2 HOPE-X Hopper / Phoenix HOTOL K-1 Liquid Fly-back Booster MAKS Reusable Booster System Roton Sea Dragon...
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    Canceled ARES Bristol Ascender, Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development...
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    automatic computer control. In mid-1990s, British research evolved an earlier HOTOL design into the far more promising Skylon design, which remained in development...
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  • subsequently harnessed on later efforts, most prominently the re-usable HOTOL spaceplane project of the 1980s. Development of the TSR-2 was one of the...
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  • Launched by a Vulcan Centaur rocket. HOTOL UK SSTO Utility 1988 Project 0 Airbreathing rocket engine. Interim HOTOL UK Air launch Utility 1991 Project 0...
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    Canceled ARES Bristol Ascender, Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development...
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    II (Uragan) Falcon 1e Falcon 5 Nexus Hyperbola-2 HOPE-X Hopper / Phoenix HOTOL K-1 Liquid Fly-back Booster MAKS Reusable Booster System Roton Sea Dragon...
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  • prototype. Reaction Engines Skylon, a design descendant of the 1980s British HOTOL ("Horizontal Take-Off and Landing") design project, is an HTHL spaceplane...
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