Stoke Aerospace:
Stoke Aerospace's fully reusable Nova orbital rocket (3 metric tons to LEO).
Nova has a methalox reusable booster that uses Zenith FFSC engines.
The reusable upper stage of Nova uses an expansion cycle hydrolox engine with a turbine and dozens of thrust chambers arranged in a ring around the heat shield.
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Stoke Aerospace performing cryoproof of its reusable upper stage.
Nova is a fully reusable orbital rocket being designed for 3 metric tons to LEO. The upper stage uses a regeneratively cooled heat shield at the base, that uses some of the liquid hydrogen propellant to cool it.
This hydrolox upper stage has dozens of combustion chambers arranged as a ring around the shield, where the shield also acts as an aerospike.
The reusable 1st stage is methalox
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