Meet HOTOL: The British-designed space plane that never flew a mission

HOTOL (which stands for Horizontal Take-Off and Landing) was a British-designed space plane developed in the mid-1980s. The aircraft was designed to be a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle that would be powered by a revolutionary airbreathing jet engine, designed by Rolls-Royce. The project was led by British Aerospace (now part of Airbus) and included teams from […]
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