Re: Spaceship One - a partial sucess.

From: Bruce Hoult (bruce_at_hoult.org)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:30:16 +1200

In article <415ad146.31143497@supernews.seanet.com>,
 fairwater@gmail.com (Derek Lyons) wrote:

> First returns; the 100km mark was broken, ascent phase control
> problems remain.

And always will, with that design. Once it gets out of the atmosphere
it simply doesn't have enough authority on the attitide control jets to
compensate for the variations in thrust vector you're always going to
get from a rocket with solid fuel.

The higher a flight is aiming for, the worse the problem will be.

-- Bruce

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