Rotary Rocket | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket


00:01:04 1 Rotary Rocket design evolution
00:01:15 1.1 Helicopter to orbit
00:02:45 1.2 Helicopter from orbit
00:09:11 1.3 A new engine
00:10:10 2 The Atmospheric Test Vehicle (ATV)
00:13:32 3 Criticism of the design
00:14:53 4 The venture's last days
00:16:44 4.1 Roton C-9 specifications



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Rotary Rocket Company was a rocketry company that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. The design was initially conceived by Gary Hudson, who formed the company to commercialize the concept. The Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten.
The company gathered considerable venture capital from angel investors and opened a factory headquartered in a 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) facility at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. The fuselage for their vehicles was made by Scaled Composites, at the same airport, while the company developed the novel engine design and helicopter-like landing system. A full-scale test vehicle made three hover flights in 1999, but the company exhausted its funds and closed its doors in early 2001.