Vehicle dossier · 001

BX-100.

A reusable orbital spaceplane. Rides up on a commercial rocket, flies the mission, and lands on a runway — one hundred times per airframe.

Airframe data plateREV 05
Designation
OV-009
Class
Reusable orbital
Planform
Lifting body
Configuration
Uncrewed
Status
First article
Program
Commercial LEO
01 · Anatomy

The airframe, up close.

One white-hot lifting body, gloss-black thermal protection. No windows, no hatches, no crew — every surface is built to fly and refly.

BX-100 detail — Nose · TPSNose · TPSN°01
BX-100 detail — Fuselage · OV-009Fuselage · OV-009N°02
BX-100 detail — Vertical stabilizerVertical stabilizerN°03
BX-100 detail — Aft · main nozzleAft · main nozzleN°04
Full-scale first article · OV-009Skin · ceramic TPS + composite aeroshell
02 · Airframe

One airframe. Built to come home.

A lifting-body planform with no crew, no capsule, and no expendable stages of its own — the whole vehicle is the recoverable asset.

Top planBX-100 · OV-009Class · Reusable orbitalLifting-body planformBX-100 top plan view
Length12.4m
Wingspan7.8m
Payload100kg → LEO
Dry mass4,200kg
Apogee~525km
Inclination28.5–98°
Units
03 · Payload bay

The bay is the product.

Everything the customer touches lives here — standard interfaces in, exact orbit out, and a runway on the return leg.

BX-100 with payload bay doors open, satellite secured in the cartridgeDorsal bay · doors openStandard cartridge · 100 kg
Cartridge locking interface — machined latches and connectorsCartridge interface · detail
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One shared bay

Deploy, host, or return — every service level flies from the same 100 kg bay to LEO.

Daysnot months

Cartridge integration

Payloads load into a standard cartridge with common mechanical and electrical interfaces. Sealed and locked before ascent.

0hr recovery

Downmass, door to door

With Return service, your payload is off the runway and back in your hands within 48 hours of wheels-down.

04 · Mission loop

The loop to orbit. Closed.

Seven phases, one vehicle. Launch out of Titusville, fly the mission, glide home to Sierra Vista — then do it again.

P1LaunchRideshare on a commercial rocket.Titusville · FL
P2AscentPayload sealed in the cartridge. Locked.
P3DeploymentCubeSats & hosted payloads to exact orbit.
P4OrbitHosted payloads · Earth observation & ISR.
P5ReentryAutonomous, guided — no crew, no capsule.
P6GlideUnpowered lifting-body descent.
P7LandingRunway recovery. 48-hour turnaround.Sierra Vista · AZ
Nominal cycle · 30 days manifest → refly48 hr turnaround between flights · same vehicle
05 · Reuse

Build one. Fly one hundred.

Flight tally · 100 sorties1 build · 99× reuse
1 vehicle · return · refuel · fly again
01

One asset, 100× the missions

Each airframe returns the output of a hundred expendables — the build-cost denominator collapses.

02

−85% cost per mission by flight 25

Build cost amortizes across the flight life; margin compounds with cadence, not headcount.

03

48 hr runway turnaround

Sortie tempo scales with mission demand, not fabrication throughput.

BX-100 touching down on a desert runway at dusk
Wheels-down · Sierra Vista AZ

Every mission ends on a runway.