This company wants to reinvent the space rocket — as a space plane

https://www.cnn.com/science/radian-spaceplane-rocket-sled-spc/index.html

4 Comments

  1. I think part of the problem is that, just to get there and back safely, required the systems to be pretty much fully optimized. Leaving not a ton of room for reinvention ala aviation dev.

  2. There’s a lot of crazy ideas for reduced launch costs but using a Holloman style rocket sled is pretty far up there.

  3. They’re gonna need a ton of money to make this work. As far as I can tell they’ve only raised $27.5 Million in total.

  4. joepublicschmoe on

    I think Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is laughing tyrannically in his grave right now. “you think you can disobey me just because I’m dead? Think again!” 😀