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Article #1987Re: SSX: Space Ship Experimental (summary)
From: David Becker
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 22:41
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 22:41
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In article <9001121009.AA01853@zit.cigy.> bpistr@cgch.UUCP writes: "The following was extracted from the Byte Information Exchange in the "space/long.messages #750, from hvanderbilt, 13708 chars, Fri Jan 12 02:24:37 1990 " Space Ship Experimental " An area where this concept might need some serious new techonology would be rockets designed to operate for hours instead of minutes. Expendables run for minutes and chuck the engine. The shuttle .. well excessive maintainance is what this SSX is supposed avoid. When have have rocket engines been designed to operate with low maintainence for lots-o-launches? Otherwise this sounds like a sound idea for some goverment agency to throw big bucks at. David Becker beckerd@cs.unc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!grover!beckerd From: beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: SSX: Space Ship Experimental (summary) Message-ID: <11484@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 16 Jan 90 22:41:57 GMT References: <9001121009.AA01853@zit.cigy.> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 15