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Roton. Rotary Rocket Company was a rocketry company that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) crewed spacecraft. The design was initially conceived by Bevin McKinney, who shared it with Gary Hudson. In 1996, Rotary Rocket Company was formed to commercialize the concept.
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But Rotary did away with the heavy turbopumps all together showing that the "rotary" concept goes beyond helicopter recovery. Rather than two or three relatively large rocket engines, the Roton has 72 small thrust chambers arranged in a ring. This means that each chamber need produce only 7,000 lb. (31,000 Nt.) of thrust to achieve the half ...
The Roton would takeoff vertically like a conventional rocket powered by a novel rotary engine burning liquid oxygen and jet fuel. The launch system infrastructure for the Roton was expected to be minimal with only a towing truck, standard refueling equipment and support lines, a blast pad, and a small launch platform.
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Jun 1, 2016 · Take the Rotary Rocket Company's 'Roton', a pepperpot-shaped capsule tested in 1999 to avoid a problem that has dogged the hundreds of crew capsules that have returned to Earth since the space ...
ROTON may be considered a ‘space helicopter’. Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten. The Roton was conical in shape, 22 feet (6.7 meters) in diameter at the base and about 63 feet (19.2 meters) tall. The rounded base of the Roton contained the vehicle’s main propulsion system.
