Re: VTVL?
- From: Russell Wallace <russell.no.spam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:02:53 +0100
Wayne C. Gramlich wrote:
If you arrange your launch site such that the recovery site
is in the ocean, the range of possible recovery sites becomes
much larger.
Plus there are fewer regulatory headaches with an ocean site.
I'm guessing you'd want to land it on a ship rather than dumping it into the ocean, to avoid the headache of refurbishing equipment that's been soaked in salt water? That also gives you the option of having the ship hold tanks of propellant so it can refill the vehicle and let it fly straight back.
Irrespective of whether the recovery site is on land or on
ocean, the weather at both launch and reentry site must be
acceptable. This will also adversely influence flight rate.
Indeed the landing site probably needs even better weather than the launch site?
Of course you could always use ships for both sites, which would improve the weather dependence and get bonus site flexibility; I imagine there'd be extra cost associated with doing that, though.
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