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- initialism aviation single stage to orbit
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Examples
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If NASA come up with a heat shield that can take a few knocks and bangs then a SSTO is the answer.
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SSTO is hard, and right on the edge of what we could conceivably do, but there's no law says you can't stack a little one on top of a big one.
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The SSTO challenge is not technical, it's economic and political. engstudent
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We have been beating our heads against this SSTO brick wall for more than 20 years.
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It's really easy from the sidelines for anyone to say "Well, let's get started", but there's so much existing talent & intellect out there on how SSTO _could_ be started, let alone get done, that I feel the Augustine commission should add SSTO to their efforts if they haven't already.
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NASA's Access to Space Studies considered an SSTO built from the existing Space Shuttle hardware, 3 Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) attached to the base of an external tank (SLWT).
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Unless and until their is a national consensus that cheap access to space is a major national priority - accompanied by adequate major funding - then we are just wasting time even thinking about SSTO. si_atwork
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NASA should also focus on developing reusable SSTO vehicles in order to give NASA, the military, and private industry easy and convenient -- human - access to orbit.
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If you want to pursue a SSTO then it goes down to 4%, which is what failed on the X-33 once their composite cryogenic tank and the aerospike engine didn't work as expected.
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Second cent, it's important to recognize that SSTO capability is possible with existing technology and does not require significant technology development, at this point in time it's a system integration problem.
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