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Article #6670Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:32
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:32
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In article <19045@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>> Advances in technology, perhaps, but hardly recent advances. The old
>> Saturn S-IVB stage could've been turned into a SSTO launcher...
>
> This somewhat confuses the issue, in that it tends to imply that the
>technology necessary to build a DC-1 was available a generation ago. The
>S-IVB derivative would be a ***non-reusable*** SSTO...
No, some of the S-IVB-based SSTO proposals were reusable. I don't know
how well they would have worked, and I don't know that I'd plan a spaceline
based on them without waiting a while to see how reusable they really were,
but on paper it was feasible.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage Message-ID: <C03wLL.KC1@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:32:07 GMT References: <19045@mindlink.bc.ca> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15