Two Stage to Orbit Conceptual Vehicle Designs using the SABRE Engine

摘要

This paper presents two conceptual designs of partially and fully reusable two stage to orbit access to space vehicels using the Reaction Engine SABRE on the first stage. The vehicles takeoff and land horizontally. This paper presents the design tools and methods used. Vehicle size, configuration, mass properties, and reference trajectories are presented. The designs presented in this paper are intended to be a point of depature for future design studies using the SABRE or similar class engine.