October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... powerful incentive to reduce launch costs for the missions of the day. Bristol Spaceplanes Spacecab orbital spaceplane concept. It is less easy to explain why orbital spaceplanes have not been developed since. In the 1970s, the early designs of the...
May 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...is only one such orbital airliner offering all of these features - the ‘Spacebus’ concept developed by my own company, Bristol Spaceplanes. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Spacebus is that prototypes can be built with proven technology. All the...
