Guide To Space - AstroClipper: Plans For A Two-Stage, Fully Reusable Spaceplane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWfkW2y-hAQ


From Oct 15, 2019.


Even as the first rockets were launched into space decades ago,
aerospace knew it was a wasteful process. Rocket stages, motors,
and complex equipment crashed into the ocean or burned up in the
Earth’s atmosphere. Could spaceplanes bring the costs down?
Flying to orbit with a combination of jet engines and rockets and
then safely re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere again.


 


Single-stage to orbit spacecraft and spaceplanes have always
seemed out of reach, and actually not that practical. But what
about a two-stage, fully reusable spaceplane? Exodus Space
Corporation has been secretly working on this concept for a
decade now, and what they’re proposing is pretty revolutionary.


 


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