MBB/ERNO (Einstufiger) LuftAtmender Raketen-Träger (LART)

Spaceflight News , August Year ?

Re: MBB LART

Note that the picture shows an early version of the SAENGER II TSTO (which, contrary to the article text, had airbreathing turboramjets in the first stage) rather than LART, which was an SSTO with an airbreathing rocket engine.

Martin

Re: MBB LART

Perhaps confusion with Sanger projects of Sixties?

Anyone got a picture of LART?

Regards,
Barry

Re: MBB LART

Ok, I'll bite: "LART"??
Liquid Air Rocket... something? Not familiar with the acronym...

Randy

Re: MBB LART

Think German!


LART = (Einstufiger) LuftAtmender Raketen-Träger

LART was a MBB/ERNO airbreathing horizontal takeoff / horizontal landing single stage to orbit proposal from the mid-1980s. Largely similar to the BAe HOTOL.

Manufacturer: MBB. Core Diameter: 28.00 m (91.00 ft). Total Length: 66.30 m (217.50 ft).

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Source: www.astronautix.com

Re: MBB LART

fightingirish said:

Think German!


LART = (Einstufiger) LuftAtmender Raketen-Träger

LART was a MBB/ERNO airbreathing horizontal takeoff / horizontal landing single stage to orbit proposal from the mid-1980s. Largely similar to the BAe HOTOL.

Manufacturer: MBB. Core Diameter: 28.00 m (91.00 ft). Total Length: 66.30 m (217.50 ft).

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Source: www.astronautix.com

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Oh sure, blame a 'fer-in' language and all... next you'll try telling me that it really is "OTAN" and not "NATO" on one side of the plane simply because someone got lazy and just did a "cut-and-paste" without reversing the image...
(USAFE joke folks )

Randy

Re: MBB LART

The 'core diameter' given in the Astronautix site is really the wing span. Attached is a (unfortunately fairly crude) picture of an early configuration.

Martin

Re: MBB LART

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Re: MBB LART

I look in archive and found some stuff

That Spaceflight News Picture show older Sänger version
MBB was studies around 1987
Sänger 01/51 turbojet + Ramjet + Rocket engines
Sänger 05/51 horizontal take off
Sänger 11/01 Ramjet + Rocket engines
Sänger 12/61 Rocket engines vertical take off tandem
Sänger 16/51 Sled, Ramjet + Rocket engines

LART Baseline - 275 tons takeoff weight, 10 tons payload, crew of 2
Alternative design
210 tons takeoff weight, 7 tons payload, crew of 2
400 tons takeoff weight, 15 tons payload ,crew of 2

Original Source
MBB "Sänger - An advanced Europan Space Transport System" Studien Ergebinisbericht, April 1967
MBB, D.E. Koelle, W Kleinau "Singel-Stage Ballisitc Reusable Cargo Vehicle Analysis" Int, Conf. SPACE TEC. Genf, may 1986
MBB, D.E. Koelle "Launch Vehicle Evolution from Mulitstage expendables to Singel Stage Recusables" IAF-85-480 September 1985

My source only quoted those sources only so you have to look for three above for more information.
Willi Hallmann, Wilfried Ley "Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik" publisher Hanser 1988, ISBN 3-446-15130-3

From Krila 6/1987.

hesham,

once again both the illustration (which is identical to the one at the very top of this thread) as well as the text refer to Sänger II and its Horus winged orbiter and Cargus expendable upper stage rather that to LART, which is the topic of this thread.

Martin

Flight International, August 1987