DISQUS

Next Big Future: Progress to the Skylon Single Stage to Orbit Spaceplane

  • KevinReed · 9 months ago
    The SSTO Concept is a winner. The contra-rotating turbine is a great idea made even better with regenerative cooling hydrogen expanded through tip rotors before combustion. We opt for crosslinked X-Aerogel insulation and the StarRaker Tri-delta Whitcomb Airfoil. The StarRaker Reusable, SSTO LEO launcher and next generation Commercial Air Transport. The combination of commercial transport and LEO SSTO makes the best business case similar to our dual use 1 GW space and terrestrial thin film solar cell manufacturing in New Mexico.
    Very important is the use of hydrogen fuel and water vapor exhaust to somewhat support Global Dimming that now stops run away Global Warming. Water vapor must take up the energy reflection as we reduce the greenhouse gasses over the next 40 years.
    K. Reed -
    Welsom Space Power, "The Race is On!"