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#1 2024-07-02 17:03:57

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New start-up aiming for a SSTO.

Andrew Parsonson @AndrewParsonson
Italian rocket builder Sidereus Space Dynamics has completed an integrated hot fire test of its single-stage-to-orbit EOS rocket.
https://x.com/andrewparsonson/status/18 … 58674?s=61

  Bob Clark


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      “Anything worth doing is worth doing for a billion dollars.”

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#2 2024-07-02 18:36:33

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Re: New start-up aiming for a SSTO.

This post is reserved for an index to posts that members may contribute over time.

Best wishes for success with this interesting new topic!

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#3 2024-07-02 19:45:35

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Re: New start-up aiming for a SSTO.

It looks like their approach is to delete the landing gear and propellant weight which would be reserved for vertical landings, and to instead make the rocket light enough that they can recapture it in mid-air, the way we used to do with film canisters from spy satellites.  This will be an interesting one to watch for spy satellite tech as miniaturized cameras and synthetic aperture radars become ever-more compact, yet ever-higher resolution, and able to do some of the processing themselves in real time.  It'd be real hard to beat them on launch costs if they can mass manufacture their vehicles.  Something that small could also be dropped from a carrier aircraft to give it anytime / any orbit capabilities.

Europe and ESA could conduct their own satellite recon missions to keep tabs on the Russians, potentially with overflights that return to or near the launch site, but caution should be exercised to ensure it doesn't get mistaken for an incoming warhead.  If the satellite is small enough and low-cost enough, then shooting it down would rapidly become cost-prohibitive.

On the civilian side of the house, upper atmospheric sampling missions could be routinely conducted to keep tabs on CO2, CH4, aerosols, solar particle events, and the like.  The exact composition of the upper atmosphere is not as well-studied as it could be, but a pint-sized SSTO that can skim through it and use air-breathing ion propulsion to remain aloft within it might change that.  I would like to know what role the charged particles in the upper reaches of the atmosphere play in the magnetic reconnection events happening further out in space.

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#4 2024-07-02 19:50:16

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Re: New start-up aiming for a SSTO.

Reminds me of the Rocket Lab rocket to a degree.

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#5 2024-12-21 07:21:00

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Re: New start-up aiming for a SSTO.

For PhotonBytes .... here is an entire category set aside for SSTO...

If you decide to enter this category, you have plenty of company...

SSTO Engine Technology by kbd512
Single Stage To Orbit    6    2024-07-03 14:53:14 by SpaceNut

New start-up aiming for a SSTO. by RGClark
Single Stage To Orbit    3    2024-07-02 19:50:16 by SpaceNut

500 Passenger SSTO Design Concept by kbd512
Single Stage To Orbit    5    2024-06-17 15:34:51 by kbd512

SSTO - Mathematical Analysis Gravity vs Stages by tahanson43206 [ 1 2 ]
Single Stage To Orbit    30    2024-06-17 12:29:43 by kbd512

Vertical Launch Assist Technologies for SSTO by tahanson43206 [ 1 2 3 ]
Single Stage To Orbit    61    2024-06-13 19:54:13 by tahanson43206

Incline or Horizontal Launch Assist Technology for SSTO by tahanson43206
Single Stage To Orbit    13    2024-06-06 15:53:27 by kbd512

SSTO Minimum Isp to Achieve Orbit by kbd512
Single Stage To Orbit    6    2024-06-05 05:17:07 by kbd512

SSTO Airframe and TPS Materials by kbd512
Single Stage To Orbit    14    2024-06-02 17:10:56 by SpaceNut

SSTO Operating Costs by kbd512
Single Stage To Orbit    9    2024-05-30 15:14:26 by kbd512

Sticky: SSTO Sub Forum Policy by kbd512
Single Stage To Orbit    13    2024-05-30 10:21:51 by tahanson43206

SSTO History Atlas and other single stage launchers by tahanson43206
Single Stage To Orbit    1    2024-05-30 06:09:30 by tahanson43206

Star-Raker proposed SSTO from the ‘70’s. by RGClark
Single Stage To Orbit    7    2024-05-22 13:27:30 by kbd512

New high strength alloys for SSTO’s? by RGClark
Single Stage To Orbit    8    2024-05-20 19:55:38 by kbd512

A SSTO research project. by RGClark [ 1 2 ]
Single Stage To Orbit    44    2024-05-20 10:38:20 by kbd512

Could the SuperHeavy booster be SSTO? by RGClark
Interplanetary transportation    16    2023-04-25 20:45:38 by Void

SSME based SSTO’s. by RGClark
Science, Technology, and Astronomy    9    2021-06-30 13:34:22 by kbd512

BFS becomes SSTO with altitude compensation. by RGClark
Single Stage To Orbit    12    2019-01-25 11:56:01 by GW Johnson

Reusable LOX/Kerosene SSTO with drop tanks by Antius [ 1 2 3 4 ]
Single Stage To Orbit    92    2018-07-12 12:09:26 by GW Johnson

SpaceX BFR tanker as an SSTO. by RGClark
Interplanetary transportation    11    2017-10-28 21:46:22 by SpaceNut

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