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A Reusable launch vehicle with current technology ?
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Joined: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:00 pm
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A RLV concept
Remember the two stage Kistler K-1 rocket ? It is recoverable (with airbags and chutes). It currently use old NK-33 and NK-45 engines from the soviet moon rocket N-1. I replace them with 2, tripropellant, powerful (200 tons of thrust), reusable engine RD-701 from the MAKS shuttle. Then I add two starBooster-200 recoverable boosters with their RD-180 engine (420 tons of thrust each). The result is a FULLY RECOVERABLE, heavy launch vehicle. Thrust at take-off : 1220 tons. (400+420*2) With so much power you can launch the reusable russian Space ship, Klipper. What do you think about that ? is it a bad idea from a technical point of view ? According to astronautix, the Kistler K-1 launch 4500 kg to a 200 km orbit. So it can launch the manned, recoverable 3800 kg VA capsule ( from the russian TKS spaceship ). |
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Bill Gates would have to fund it--and Bono has his ear. Gates wanted to build a Saturn V type vehicle for Teledesic; so the rumor goes--but his wife got to him.
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