The Earth's atmosphere is a vast thermal energy reservoir. LASSTOV turns it into rocket fuel in flight, at no feedstock cost, at scale.
A
Atmospheric Energy Harvesting
Proprietary intake systems extract thermal energy from ambient air at rate, converting it to liquid propellant in flight. At high speed, mass flow through intakes generates hundreds of megawatts of usable energy.
B
Drag Inversion
Conventional drag increases with velocity. LASSTOV converts aerodynamic drag into forward thrust through active pressure management achieving 75–95% effective drag reduction at hypersonic speed.
C
Non-Cryogenic Liquid Air Storage
Liquid air stored at ambient temperature under 200 bar pressure in standard industrial vessels. No cryogenic boil-off, no exotic tanks, no mass penalty. 1,500 tonnes total capacity.
D
Multi-Mode Propulsion
Seamless transition from electric turbofan take-off through supersonic thermal propulsion to orbital insertion. A single unified flight control system manages all four axes across the entire speed envelope.
E
Regenerative Re-entry
During atmospheric return, LASSTOV recovers both kinetic energy and liquid air propellant. The vehicle arrives at the landing runway with operational reserves that ready to fly again within days.
Key Highlights
Payload to GEO
275 tonnes
Projected Cost per kg
$20–$100 (vs. $2,700+ today)
Cost Reduction vs. Market
~2 orders of magnitude
Launch Infrastructure
Conventional runway
Mission Duration to LEO
~40 minutes
Reusability
Fully reusable aircraft-like operations
Patent-Pending Technologies
19 integrated innovations
Gross Take-Off Weight
~920 tonnes
The Core Principle
The Rocket Equation Has a Hard Limit. LASSTOV Doesn't Use It.
Every conventional rocket must carry all of its propellant from the ground. That means 85–95% of launch mass is propellant and the physics of this constraint produce an exponential cost curve no amount of engineering can escape.
LASSTOV inverts the paradigm. Using proprietary condensation technology, the vehicle extracts thermal energy from the atmosphere during flight and converts ambient air into liquid propellant. The vehicle gains mass during atmospheric flight rather than losing it.
At every flight velocity, the mass flow through LASSTOV's intake systems increases which delivering more energy, more propellant, more thrust. The system enters a virtuous cycle: speed creates fuel, which creates more speed. The atmosphere is both the energy source and the propellant feedstock.
Every kilogram launched to orbit today costs between $2,700 and $15,000. That's not an engineering failure, it's the physics of chemical rocketry. LASSTOV changes the physics.
LASSTOV gathers mass in flight. Using proprietary atmospheric condensation technology, the vehicle harvests air and converts it to liquid propellant during ascent that inverting the rocket equation entirely.
A $16 billion global launch market. Over 25,000 commercial aircraft. A $100 billion carbon capture sector. The core technology platform powers them all.
At-a-Glance Stats
$20–100
Per kg to GEO
275t
Payload Capacity
~40 min
To Orbit
100%
Reusable