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HOTOL would have been 63 metres long, 12. 8 metres high, 7 metres in diameter and with a wingspan of 28. 3 metres.
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HOTOL was designed for automatic, unmanned flights, although later stages would reintroduce a pilot.
* NASP-a scramjet vehicle that HOTOL would have competed with
The STV would be single-stage-to-orbit aircraft, similar to Lockheed's X-30 and the UK's HOTOL proposals of the 1980s, with capability for in-flight refueling, and an expected speed of 6, 000 mph ( Mach 8. 5 +).
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Interim HOTOL was to have dispensed with an air-breathing engine cycle and was designed to use more conventional LOX and liquid hydrogen.
This research may have inspired the British HOTOL program, which rather than airbreathing to high hypersonic speeds as with NASP, proposed to use a precooler up to Mach 5. 5.
HOTOL and been
In 1989 HOTOL co-creator Alan Bond formed Reaction Engines Limited which has since been working on the Reaction Engines Skylon vehicle intended to solve the problems of HOTOL.
HOTOL and metres
After reaching orbit, HOTOL was intended to re-enter the atmosphere and glide down to land on a conventional runway ( approx 1, 500 metres minimum ).
HOTOL and .
HOTOL, for Horizontal Take-Off and Landing, was a British air-breathing space shuttle effort by Rolls Royce and British Aerospace.
Since propellant typically represents the majority of the takeoff weight of a rocket, HOTOL was to be considerably smaller than normal pure-rocket designs, roughly the size of a medium-haul airliner such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 / MD-80.
A cheaper redesign, Interim HOTOL or HOTOL 2, to be launched from the back of a modified Antonov An-225 transport aircraft, was offered by BAe in 1991 but that too was rejected.
* Rob Coppinger, Secret files reveal US interest in UK HOTOL spaceplane, Flight International, 23 February 2009.
This design was pioneered by Reaction Engines Limited, a company founded by Alan Bond after HOTOL was canceled.
In mid-1990, further British research and major reengineering to avoid deficiencies of the HOTOL design led to the far more promising Skylon design, with much greater payload.
Historically, the X-33 and HOTOL spaceplanes were rear engined and had relatively heavy engines.
The British Government also began development of a SSTO-spaceplane, called HOTOL, but the project was canceled due to technical and financial issues.
The lead engineer from the HOTOL project has since set up a private company dedicated to creating a similar plane called Skylon with a different combined cycle rocket / turbine precooled jet engine called SABRE.
SABRE is an evolution of Alan Bond's series of liquid air cycle engine ( LACE ) and LACE-like designs that started in the early / mid-1980s for the HOTOL project.
In 1989, after funding for HOTOL ceased, Bond and several others formed Reaction Engines Limited to continue research.
Previous versions of precoolers such as HOTOL put the hydrogen fuel directly through the precooler, but inserting a helium cooling loop between the air and the cold fuel avoids problems with hydrogen embrittlement in the air precooler.
This design was pioneered by the privately held Reaction Engines Limited, a company founded by Alan Bond after HOTOL was canceled.
The RB545 was an air-breathing rocket engine that was proposed to propel a British space shuttle ( see HOTOL ) to orbit using a single stage.
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