Sep 12, 2025
SpaceShipTember 2025
Day 6 - Tandem A 2-stage reusable shuttle inspired by the Boeing Space Freighter. One shuttle, loaded with only fuel, acts as a flyback booster for the second.
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SpaceShipTember 2025
Day 6 - Tandem A 2-stage reusable shuttle inspired by the Boeing Space Freighter. One shuttle, loaded with only fuel, acts as a flyback booster for the second.
Been messing around with retro/pulp-style rocket ideas. Started with the one on the left, but I felt like the propellant fraction was way too low, so I switched to the adapted Liberty Ship on the right.
Engines are solid-core conversion drives, which work much like solid-core antimatter rockets. A reactor of mostly tungsten turns all material inside into gamma rays, heating the tungsten, which is cooled by transferring heat to the hydrogen propellant.
More messing around with retro-style rockets, this time exploring SSTO takeoff/landing in an atmosphere. The shuttlecock effect on descent seems to rule out the classic huge tail fins, but I'm trying to go for something similar enough.
Doodle - Breadbox-style Shuttle
SpaceShipTember 2025
Day 14 - Carrier Does a tandem body negate the advantages of an oblique wing? Maybe. Is it a good idea to air launch a rocket from such a complicated design? Probably not. Does it look really cool though? You be the judge
SpaceShipTember 2025
Day 1 - Launch! Passenger and Cargo aeroshells lifting off a Launch Loop on the way to orbit. The passenger module can make a gliding reentry and landing in case of emergency
One more retro SSTO Lander, this time with the classic loading crane at the top, and a mechanism for on-demand landing pads:
As the United States strategizes its return of humans to the Moon in 2024 and beyond per Space Policy Directive One, there are many challeng
Landers that generate their own pads as they touch down would mean faster, cheaper, and safer planetary exploration
SpaceShipTember 2025
Day 8 - Spaceport Since the points of arrival and departure for structures like Space Elevators and Launch Loops mostly amount to train stations, here's the bottom end of a Launch Loop emerging from underground somewhere near the equator.