How Revolutionary is the Titans Spaceplane?
Neal Lachman
🇵🇸 | 🇺🇦 | CEO & Chief of Spacecraft Design | TitansSpace.com | Investor | Selene Mission | Crewed Mars Mission:2032 | Nuclear Propulsion | Normalizing Space Tourism | Spaceplanes | Space Stations
The Titans spaceplane is a one-of-a-kind airplane with a propulsion system and heat shielding that allows it to operate in the vacuum of space and to reenter Earth's atmosphere.
The Titans Spaceplane is the first spaceplane to take off from a runway like an airplane. The Titans Rocket Engines are specifically designed to be an aircraft powerplant and are built for maximum reliability and durability. At over 1 million lbs thrust it has twice the thrust of a space shuttle SSME.
When we fire the engines, it will be only the second 1-million lbs thrust engine fired, and the first to do it using LOX/hydrogen.
Besides being used for safe, frequent, and efficient space tourism (flights and transport), Titans Spaceplanes allow for solutions that are (and will always be) impossible with vertically launched rocket vehicles.
Some examples of a Titans Spaceplane's revolutionary applications
Affordable Space Tourism; Starting at $25,000
Titans Space is building the next generation of luxury travel in space, allowing astronauts to escape gravity, explore the stars, visit the heavens in comfort and safety, and shape the future with groundbreaking research and development
Titans Space is actively reinventing the space tourism industry through extensive development of proprietary technologies, and strategic acquisitions of competitors
Titans Space will command a majority of the market share of space tourism through manufacturing and operating space vehicles designed for frequent reusability
Using next-generation spaceplanes instead of traditional rocketships, Titans Space creates safer, more environmentally friendly transportation systems that grant virtually unlimited access to space.
With regards to spaceplane tourism, we will offer two short-duration space flights:
1. Orbital Cruises (~5 hours)
2. Sub-Orbital Zero-G Flights (~90 minutes)
The Sub-Orbital Zero-G flights are somewhat similar to the Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic experiences, but the flight will last for 90 minutes. While the zero-g duration lasts around 10-15 minutes, you'll get to see more of Earth!
Titans space tourists will travel in luxurious style, wearing an Intravehicular Activity (IVA) suit for the duration of a flight. You'll take off from our spaceport facilities (e.g. in the USA), and you will end up at another partner spaceport, which may be halfway across the world.
Rocket lift-off requires passengers to remain in a reclined position, strapped into their seats; Titans passengers will experience airplane-like comfort and ease.
Furthermore, from 2027/2028 onward, we plan to offer space vacations at our LEO Space Station, and ultimately at our Lunar Space Station and Lunar Resort.
For more information, please visit the Space Tourism section of our website.
Orbital Transport
✓ Titans spaceplanes can transport cargo and passengers directly to and from any large airport in the world
✓ Flight duration: 90-180 minutes to any drop location
✓ Delivery to remote outposts
✓ No forward bases required (for military cargo drops)
The Titans spaceplanes can stay in orbit and deploy uncrewed reentry capsules, making precision landings under parafoil
✓ Orbital Trajectory: Ascend to orbit followed by 1.5 or two orbits until the vehicle is within range of the destination airfield
✓ Pin-Point Exact Delivery: Titans spaceplanes can deliver anywhere, from rural areas to deserts, or to a ship or submarine at sea.
For more information, please visit the Orbital Transport section of our website.
Sub-Orbital Transport
Transport personnel and cargo anywhere in less than 90 Minutes - faster than hypersonic transport.
✓ Sub-Orbital Trajectory (arc)
✓ Flight time: 45-90 minutes to any location
✓ Ascend through a suborbital ballistic arc where the vehicle flies outside the atmosphere but stays below orbital velocity
Different from orbital flights, when utilizing a ballistic arc trajectory, Titans vehicles do not achieve orbital velocity. Instead, the vehicle climbs out of the atmosphere at speeds below orbital velocity.
The vehicle will ascend to approximately 200 kilometers (apogee), and continue its descent to the destination airport or spaceport.
For more information, please visit the Sub-Orbital Transport section of our website.
Ultra-Fast Travel
Travel Anywhere in ~90 Minutes. Beyond Concorde; Capable of Space Transport.
Titans spaceplane flyers will travel in luxurious style with access to their individual Spacepods for the duration of a flight.
Most destinations are estimated to be reached within two hours - from take-off to landing.
Rocket lift-off requires passengers to remain in a reclined position, strapped into their seats; Titans passengers will experience airplane-like comfort and ease.
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✓ Sub-Orbital Trajectory (arc)
✓ Flight time: 45-90 minutes to any location - Faster than Hypersonic Travel
✓ Passengers: Titans, VIPs, Government, Military
✓ Ascend through a suborbital ballistic arc where the vehicle flies outside the atmosphere but stays below orbital velocity
✓ Land at any large airport: The vehicle can land at any contracted airport.
The rocket engines are switched off as our desired altitude (200 kilometers) is achieved. At that moment, for 10-15 minutes, the astronauts can unbuckle their restraint harnesses and proceed to the front of the Passenger Module.
As the nose swings open, panoramic windows provide the fliers with a spectacular view of Earth and Space. After approximately 10-15 minutes in space at zero-g, the astronauts return to their seats and buckle in for reentry and landing. The vehicle will ascend to approximately 200 kilometers (apogee), and continue its descent to the destination airport or spaceport.
The ultra-fast travel experience is identical to the Sub-Orbital Zero-G flight experience.
For more information, please visit the Ultra-Fast Travel section of our website.
Other unique Applications
A dream come true for military and government agencies
Titans is investigating the potential for a spaceplane to change orbital inclination while already in orbit by diving into the upper atmosphere, banking to change direction, then reboosting itself back into orbit in a new inclination. This could, for example, allow during the same flight deployment of satellites to different orbital inclinations.
Titans spaceplanes will have the unique capability of rapid response deployment
Rather than a recoverable asset, a Titans spaceplane could also carry a satellite with a kick stage to boost it to a higher orbit. The response time of a Titans spaceplane would be determined by how much time is required to checkout and prepare a payload for launch.
For answers to more than 120 questions. please visit the FAQ section of our website.
About Titans Space Industries
Titans Space intends to:
✓ Become the largest LEO and Lunar Space tourism company
✓ Become the largest Real Estate owner in Space and the Moon
✓ Become the largest Lunar commerce and mining company (from 2031 onwards)
Titans Space Industries (TSI) was founded by a group of 15 partners with a combined 450 years of business experience, representing investor interests in Titans Universe/TSI. They worked together on numerous projects for a combined 200+ years.
The founding team includes a 28-year-veteran space entrepreneur and satellite broadband pioneer, a PE fund manager who raised more than $6 billion in capital, a 40+ year rocketry and aerodynamics veteran, a 40+ year Space entrepreneur and activist, a Hall-of-Fame NBA basketball legend, a former Head of Business Development at Apple, a multi-billion-dollar business strategist, a former MD of KPMG NYC who advised on 100+ PE and M&A transactions, and the former CFO of a Formula One racing team and public listed companies.
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