Reusable Launch Vehicles: Obstacles Remain Despite Potential Markets
Credit: VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS
The production of reusable launch vehicles (RLVs) is imminent; however, these will most likely be limited to the suborbital class rather than the orbital. Buoyed in no small part by the public's fixation on the Ansari X Prize in 2004, the most widely anticipated application for suborbital RLVs is in...
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