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Family: VTOVL. Country: USA. Status: Study 1963. Other Designations: Reusable One stage Orbital Space Truck.
Bono's first design for a reusable single stage to orbit LH2/Lox booster, using Improved Specific Impulse approach: many engines feeding into single large nozzle.
SpecificationsLEO Payload: 454,500 kg. to: 325 km Orbit. at: 0.0 degrees. Liftoff Thrust: 8,330,820 kgf. Total Mass: 6,763,400 kg. Core Diameter: 21.3 m. Total Length: 81.0 m. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 154.00 million. in 1985 unit dollars.
- Stage Number: 1. 1 x ROOST ISI Gross Mass: 6,218,000 kg. Empty Mass: 435,000 kg. Thrust (vac): 10,385,000 kgf. Isp: 455 sec. Burn time: 249 sec. Isp(sl): 365 sec. Diameter: 21.3 m. Span: 21.3 m. Length: 67.1 m. Propellants: Lox/LH2 No Engines: 18. Chamber/single nozzle
Bibliography:- 214 - Bono, Philip, Advanced in the Astronautical Sciences, "Design Objectives for Tomorow's Big Boosters", 1963.
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