Re: Water Fuel Rocket Science


Brad Guth wrote:
If what you say is even 1% true, you'd be a trillionare and we'd have
had your SSTO spaceplane as of more than a decade ago. But since your
conditional laws of physics are so skewed, and your soft-science or
fuzzy-science of infomercial logic that's so subjective, as a result
it's hard to say what parts of your argument are worth squat.


I can't understand why the trillions haven't begun coming in. I keep
waiting. I am offering to build a SSTO/SSTP for 8 billion U.S.
dollars, up front, and no one has negotiated with me. A little
titanium, some vacuum, some air pressure, a layer or two of composite,
some ceramic, add on some SSMEs and -- 'Presto' -- the SSTO/SSTP
exists.


A fly-by-rocket lander is still in the works of being
invented, should only cost a billion to prototype, and this time it'll
have those powerful reaction wheels as well as fully computer modulated
reaction thrusters plus roughly twice the rocket fuel capacity per
tonne of what those phony baloney Apollo landers had to work with.


You know, taking the GLOW to .25 Thrust to Weight may make sense. The
dry weight must remain very light, but added fuel does two things. It
puts the SSTO/SSTP at a higher altitude when Thrust to Wegiht
approaches 2 and 3 to 1 AND it keeps the spaceplane at slower speeds in
the densest part of the atmosphere reducing air friction. Higher
altitude for high thrust to weight translates into more total speed
capability and more reserve fuel as well. Staying slow in dense
atmosphere should keep temperatures very mild for a composite/ceramic
spaceplane.


Air friction, though enormous, can be dealt with most easily on
planetfall. This is when 'air brakes' can be used and they could be
made very effective. I believe that speed could be taken from orbital
velocity to mach 10 in about 2 minutes with proper air braking.


tomcat

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