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Skylon is a spaceplane like no other - it's a SSTO, or Single Stage to orbit vehicle, and one of my favorite spacecraft concepts.

Its history dates back to the 1980s with the HOTOL Project, with the goal of reducing the cost of putting things into orbit to 1/5th that of the American space shuttle. Much work has been done on the idea, and includes some truly brilliant technologies. But the British government was wary of the huge development costs and time required.

Work on SABRE and Skylon continues privately under Reaction Engines Limited, and while Skylon might not be in the air today, its engine technology continues to be developed...

I hope you enjoy my attempt at recreating these vehicles in KSP RSS/RO.

Sources:
Concept art on the secretprojects forum
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The latest Skylon manual, and the one mine is based off of.
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A great BBC documentary on HOTOL and Skylon, with Alan Bond and more speaking.
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Music:

Nightlife by Frank Schröter
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Bap Bap Bap by Sascha Ende®
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Smooth and Cool by Nico Staf
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Stairway by Patrick Patrikios
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Tribute by Frank Schröter
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Rich in the 80s by DivKid
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Space Trooper by Divkid
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Beautiful Sound by Frank Schröter
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Looping Ascent by Joel Cummins
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Drive by Ross Bugden
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:33 The concept of SSTOs
1:22 Why do rockets stage?
3:00 Introduction to HOTOL
5:25 HOTOL 2.0
7:11 The end of HOTOL
7:55 And the start of Skylon
8:25 Skylon Cinematic
14:33 The future of Skylon
16:24 But...

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