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Single stage

Single-stage-to-orbit, a vehicle which reaches orbit from the surface of a body without jettisoning hardware



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Dayananda Gunawardena

"Kaamare Pore" (1962) Produced as a single stage drama in Sinhala this is an adaptation of the Play 'Box and Cox' by the English playwright John Maddison Morton and It was first staged without any songs.

Electronicam

Single-stage shows, such as Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners, were relatively easy since they had few sets and generally small casts.

LAPCAT

HOTOL (1986–88 design for single-stage-to-orbit reusable winged launch vehicle to use an air-breathing engine)

National Launch System

A NASA history from 1998 offers that reusable Single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) rockets and space planes such as the DC-X and X-33 seemed attainable and represented smaller, simpler alternatives to the sprawling Shuttle program.

Reaction Engines Limited

The company conducts research into space propulsion systems, centred on the development of the Skylon re-usable SSTO spaceplane.

Rodong

Rodong-1, a single stage, mobile liquid propellant ballistic missile developed by North Korea with a range of 900-1300km

Science Realm

Science Realms predecessor Science Dawn was a classified program to build a rocket-launched supersonic horizontal-take off horizontal-landing (HOTOL) SSTO spaceplane.

Serv

Chrysler SERV, a single-stage to orbit rocket design submitted for the Space Shuttle contest

Shcramjet

A Shock-Induced Combustion Ramjet Engine (abbreviated as Shcramjet; also called Oblique Detonation Wave Engine (ODWE), or simply referred to as Shock-Ramjet Engine) is a new concept in airbreathing ramjet engines, proposed to be used for hypersonic, as well as, single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) propulsion applications.