Re: VTVL?
- From: simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:07:48 GMT
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:00:43 GMT, in a place far, far away, Monte
Davis <monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:
richard schumacher <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If I had to bet I'd say the first commercially successful completely
reuseable launcher will use vertical launch, parallel staging (all
rocket engines on both stages running at liftoff), a winged LOX/RP-1 1st
stage with jet engines for flyback, and a vertical re-entry and landing
LOX/liquid propane orbiter. But I'll take whatever we can get :_>
If I had to bet I'd say that in attaining "commercial success," the
influence of flight rate and ground ops dwarfs that of all technology
and design choices put together.
Yes, within limits.
.
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