Rotary Rocket vertical assembly building


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By: kjfitz @ 2007-03-10 21:35:08
Description: Roton was a concept developed in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten. Gary Hudson championed the design and formed the startup Rotary Rocket, Inc, headquartered in a 45,000-square-foot facility at Mojave Airport. A full-scale test vehicle made three hover flights in 1999, but the company ran out of funds and closed its doors in early 2001.
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Location: Mojave, California (CA), United States (US)
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Parabellum @ 2007-03-11 08:20:40
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