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Rick Newlands' "Black Cab" nanosat launcher
Rocketeer — Sun, 29/11/2009 - 10:57am
Rob Coppinger links to a presentation by Rick Newlands on his "Black Cab" winged reusable nanosat launch vehicle design, which would be carried to launch altitude by White Knight Two:
- PICTURE: Black Cab - a reusable flyback first stage -- Hyperbola
Coppinger reports that Newlands "has since been contracted to undertake an analysis of expendable and reusable options for LauncherOne".
Black Cab: A British Nanosat Launcher
View more presentations from A. Rocketeer.
As another UK space activist mentioned to me recently, if it's a UK commercial cargo vehicle, it should really be called White Van rather than Black Cab... ;-)
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