RETALT (RETro Propulsion Assisted Landing Technologies) is a project for aiming to investigate in key technologies for retropropulsion reusable launch systems established in March 2019 with funds from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. It aims to "advance the research and development of key technologies for European vertical-landing launch vehicles."[1][2][3]

The reference configurations for the development of the targeted technologies are two types of vertical launch and landing rockets a two-stage-to-orbit and a single-stage to orbit .[4][5][6] The partner organisations are DLR, CFS Engineering (Switzerland), Elecnor Deimos (Spain), MT Aerospace (Germany), Almatech (Switzerland) and Amorim Cork Composites (Portugal).[7][8][9][10][11]

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  1. ^ "RETALT". RETALT. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. ^ Berger, Eric (26 June 2019). "Europe says SpaceX "dominating" launch, vows to develop Falcon 9-like rocket". Ars Technica. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Le DLR veut des lanceurs réutilisables plus performants que le Falcon 9".
  4. ^ "RETALT". RETALT. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  5. ^ Andrew Parsonson (26 June 2019). "European Consortium Brazenly Announces Plans to Copy Falcon 9". rocketrundown.com. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. ^ "European reusable launch systems for more sustainability in spaceflight". Space Daily.
  7. ^ DLR. "RETALT project European reusable launch systems for more sustainability in spaceflight". DLR Portal. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  8. ^ "RETALT".
  9. ^ "European projects". CFS Engineering. 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  10. ^ "Almatech is part of the European project for the development of a Reusable Landing Rocket (RETALT)". Almatech. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  11. ^ Portugal, Fullsix. "Cork integrated within programme for reusable space vehicles". Amorim Cork Composites. Retrieved 2020-02-13.