August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... in the mid-1980s (as the BAe Hotol), using pre-cooler cycle air-breathing engines to achieve a reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane. In the subsequent third of a century, every one of the many formal external reviews with access to the project...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... passenger transport continues to evolve, it may one day use a vehicle like Skylon, the futuristic design for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane that grew out of the Rolls-Royce/British Aerospace HOTOL project of the 1980s. The current iteration...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...space activity. There are still issues of how to classify and register truly hybrid craft such as single-stage-to-orbit spaceplanes and what happens in respect of the liability of spaceflight participants for accidents or injury on board a suborbital...
