Excalibur
Launch vehicle · USA
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Credit: Truax Engineering
American sea-launched orbital launch vehicle. Excalibur was a subscale version of Sea Dragon proposed by Truax Engineering in the 1990's. It featured the same attributes as Sea Dragon: low cost design (pressure fed engines), LOx/Kerosene first stage (combustion chamber pressure 24 atmospheres) and LOx/LH2 second stage (chamber pressure 5 atmospheres). Guidance would be by a combined Inertial/GPS system. An even smaller Excalibur S vehicle would prove the concept and place 500 kg in orbit.
LEO Payload: 55,000 kg (121,000 lb) to a 230 km orbit at 90.00 degrees.
Related
- People
- Truax
- Country
- USA
- Launch Vehicles
- Excalibur Target System
- Propellants
- Solid
- Launch Sites
- Fort Bliss MCG
- Agency
- Bristol