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Skybolt Sounding Rocket

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Status: Design 2006. Payload: 20 kg (44 lb). Thrust: 68.70 kN (15,444 lbf). Gross mass: 2,500 kg (5,500 lb). Height: 11.60 m (38.00 ft). Diameter: 0.81 m (2.65 ft). Span: 2.29 m (7.50 ft). Apogee: 130 km (80 mi).

Skybolt was designed to flight test the rocket engine for the manned Starchaser space tourist vehicle and prove the modular vehicle construction. It would also be used to obtain real space flight experience for the company. Skybolt was designed to be reusable, a trait that was almost unique compared to existing sounding rockets. Propulsion was to be by a single Starchaser Storm bi-liquid lox / kerosene engine, which would provide a total impulse of 3.23 MNs, and reach a cutoff velocity of 1440 m/sec and Mach number 4.8.

Payload: 20 kg (44 lb) to a 130 km altitude.