| 11. | In August, Radu Alman signed a new, three-year record deal with Roton.
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| 12. | This initial version of the Roton had been designed with the small communications satellite market in mind.
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| 13. | If the tests are successful, the first Roton could blast into orbit as early as next year.
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| 14. | MIT's Crawley agrees that the potential impact of a new system like the Roton is enormous.
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| 15. | In the early 20th century, the properties of all three made up the Roton Point Amusement Park.
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| 16. | That leaves Roton as the only new rocket that aims to fly to space and back in one piece.
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| 17. | But that's about the only resemblance the Roton has to any other rocket, real or fictional.
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| 18. | The Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten.
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| 19. | The Rotary Rocket Roton ATV, which was originally envisioned to take off using a rocket-tipped rotor.
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| 20. | Rotary Rocket built a landing test simulator ( the Roton ATV ) which flew three successful test flights in 1999.
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