HALCYON ORBITAL

Launch services for a solar system that never was.

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T-00:00 · PAD

Night on the pad.

Frigate stands fueled under the floodlights, strongback easing away. Scroll starts the count.

T+01:12 · MAX Q

Steam stays with the pad, the booster does not. Nine engines, one gravity turn, every meter keyed to scroll.

T+02:38 · STAGING

Main engine cutoff, the booster falls home, and the second stage lights for orbit.

The fleet

Every number below is invented, like the company. The page is the product: three separate scroll films on one page, each with its own scrub.

Light class

620 kg to low orbit

Single stick, methane first stage, printed engines. Flies weekly, lands on the pad it left.

Medium class

4.2 t to low orbit · 1.1 t to transfer

The workhorse. Two stages, recoverable booster, fairing wide enough for a school bus.

Heavy class

18 t to low orbit · crew rated

Three cores at liftoff, one home by sunset. Carries the station modules the others resupply.

T+03:29 · FAIRING

Two halves swing away over a lit planet and fall behind. The payload sees space for the first time.

T+09:47 · DEPLOY

Panels unfold, the spring pushers fire, and the spacecraft flies its own mission from here.

Cadence

flights on last year's fictional manifest

72 h

pad turnaround between missions

launch sites, one on each invented coast

T+41:00 · SYSTEM

Pull back from a real-textured planet to the working system: six worlds, one sun, and the mission tracing its arc in orange.

The point

HALCYON ORBITAL

A fictional company, a real technique: three scroll-driven flight films on one page, night pad to planetary system, drawn live in the browser.

Planet textures by Solar System Scope, CC BY 4.0. Launch photography by SpaceX studied as reference; nothing here is theirs.