SSOAR home
topic index
SSTO orbital launch vehicle. Family: VTOVL. Country: USA. Status: Design 1976.

P Seigler founded a company in 1976 to promote his design for a VTOVL SSTO vehicle using a lox/hydrogen aerospike engine.

Investors to back the scheme could not be found, and the company folded within a few years.

Manufacturer: Earth/Space, Inc.

Bibliography:

  • Hudson, Gary C, History of the Phoenix VTOL SSTO and Recent Developments in Single-Stage Launch Systems, AAS 91-643, included in Proceedings of 5th ISCOPS, AAS Vol. 77, pp 329-351, November 1991.
Contact us with any corrections, additions, or comments.
Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site..
To contact astronauts or cosmonauts.

© Mark Wade, 1997 - 2008 except where otherwise noted.