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Old 05-17-2022, 10:55 AM
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Default Kankoh-Maru SSTO spaceship video (link)

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Here (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-JL_GoUmI ) is a computer-generated video of the launch, flight, re-entry, and landing of the Japanese Kankoh-Maru SSTO--Single-Stage-To-Orbit--space tourism spaceship (its name roughly transliterates as "S.S. [space] Tourism"). The video's creator has also done videos of numerous old and new reusable launch vehicle designs, including SERV (Chrysler's SSTO Space Shuttle design of the early 1970s) and the various winged (with reusable winged booster) Shuttle designs.
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Old 05-17-2022, 11:11 AM
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Nice animation. If we only had energetic enough fuel for such ventures...
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Nice animation. If we only had energetic enough fuel for such ventures...
I've always like his creative videos (which show water splashing on the camera lens, etc.). SSTOs do work--they just have to be rather larger (in order to improve the dry mass-to-wet [fueled] mass fraction). Chrysler's SERV SSTO was also large, for the same reason, as were Philip Bono's (of McDonnell Douglas) SSTO designs (his smallest SSTO, called SASSTO, was a modified Saturn S-IVB stage with an aerospike rocket engine, which doubled as an actively-cooled base re-entry heat shield). Also:

In his book "Halfway to Anywhere," G. Harry Stine even listed several historic and existing rocket stages that could--although with pretty small payloads (but enough to prove the principle)--achieve orbit all by themselves. Also, a Shuttle External Tank with six SSMEs would, as Gary Hudson found, lift substantial payloads into orbit as an expendable SSTO (RS-68As would be cheaper alternatives to SSMEs [RS-25s], for such an expendable SSTO launch vehicle).
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