Re: Delta 4 Heavy -- the engine for humans beyond LEO?
From: Douglas Holmes (noholmesdgspam_at_verizon.net)
Date: 12/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:09:55 GMT
"Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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> This booster is beginning to look really impressive to me -- the recent
> launch holds don't bother me at all.
>
> In its current and EXPANDABLE forms, is this the kind of rocket
> that can take people beyond LEO, or assemble the vehicle to do so,
> in LEO, when the time comes?
>
> Has a really good, big booster snuck up on us, when many of us
> (like me) really weren't paying attention?
>
> JimO
>
>
The Delta IV has one major flaw for LEO an upper stage that has way to
little thrust.
In the long run to reach full potential for LEO it will need the MB/RL-60
and maybe even dual MB/RL-60s for the upper stage.
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