/sci/ - Science & Math

What do people think of once-around quasi SSTO (aka no circularisation, one orbit landing back to the launch point)? If you're not sending people into space, that seems a better choice, you need less systems for long in orbit stay, you have a built in quicker turnaround, you have a higher payload, and it's not like most payloads are supposed to be sent to a reference 200km circular orbit, and a SSTO's performances collapse pretty quickly with each additional hundred of m/s of dV

Pic related, yuro drop test demonstrator of an early 90s hopper project.