Re: Scrapping Scram

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:37:35 GMT

On 28 Oct 2004 16:12:50 -0700, in a place far, far away,
manofsan@yahoo.com (sanman) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

>I was reading that NASA will be scrapping its Scramjet research
>program after the next X43 test:
>
>http://www.e4engineering.com/story.aspx?uid=193fb78a-427c-45d7-837a-8ce3252aaafb&cuid=b96dad81-0ef4-4fcc-9e3d-a7bd9b6a4258
>
>Is scram considered to be the weakest of the available technologies to
>get into orbit?

Depends on who you ask. I'm sure that I could come up with weaker
ones (e.g., anti-gravity, etc.) but I don't think it holds much
promise for launch vehicles. That's not to say that it's not useful,
just that it's not particularly relevant to getting into space.

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