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Home....<br /><br />DC Page....<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>BSC Spaceship<br /><br />As a result of a five month-long study by SpaceDev, Benson Space Company (BSC) has chosen to pursue a fresh approach in the design of its spaceship.<br /> /><br />The new BSC Spaceship design is lighter and sleeker, resulting in less drag and requiring less propulsion than the earlier design. The vehicle, powered by safe hybrid rocket motors, will launch vertically and glide to a landing at the launch site. <b><font color="yellow">A safer carefree reentry, after achieving an altitude of at least 65 miles, will subject passengers to minimal G-forces, compared to other designs.</font></b>It will also have many large, well-placed windows for ideal passenger views of the Earth and space.<br /><br />The BSC Spaceship propulsion system uses non-explosive hybrid rocket motors, directly evolved and improved from the safe and successful hybrid rocket motors SpaceDev developed and flew on Paul Allen's historic SpaceShipOne.<br /> /><br /> /><p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <br /><br />Note the "carefree reentry" statement. The next post has an image of their system. Instead of moving the wings as in SS1/SS2 the suborbital DC uses 4 large fuselage flaps. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>