Reusable Launch Vehicles

This section contain reusable launch vehicles. A reusable launch system (RLV) is a launch system which is capable of launching a launch vehicle into space more than once. This contrasts with expendable launch systems, where each launch vehicle is launched once and then discarded. No true orbital reusable launch system is currently in use.

Sections:

Space Shuttle: Partially Reusable!
Starbooster:
K-1: In Development.
Roton:

Cancelled

Hopper - proposed reusable European launch system)
HOTOL (Horizontal Take-Off and Landing) - British air-breathing SSTO space shuttle effort by Rolls Royce and British Aerospace.
Kliper - Russian-European partially reusable spacecraft that was to be launched around 2011 for the first time.
Roton - Commercial launch vehicle project. Ccancelled in 2000 due to lack of funds.

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