Calico like Kitten also has a composite aeroshell and is a HTOL SSTO RLV using the same basic technology as Kitten but with a lighter aeroshell and larger engines it burns Liquid Methane and Lox and has a lifting body design with a waverider insert on the main wing.
Calico can carry up to 12 people or 1.8 tonnes into LEO. Calico is 19 meters long 8 wide and masses 51.6 tonnes glom.
Reference:
Email from Jim Hill on Saturday 25th November, 2000 (cerulean_freight@yahoo.com)
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