October 15th, 2019 • 12 mins 43 secs • Download (11.7 MB) • Link with Timestamp
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.