Re: SSTO vs 2 stage

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From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:51

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In <93002.220235SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:

>What I understood Bruce to be proposing/discussing was the idea of
>building a bottom stage for a DC-1 for those occaisons when a 'heavy'
>payload needed launch.  (Heavy - either something that grosses out
>long before it bulks out the cargo bay, or something that is going
>higher than LEO on one launch (for whatever reason)).

I understood that too.  Perhaps you did not understand what I meant
when I said, if there are enough heavy cargoes to justify a new
vehicle, it would be more cost-effective to build a larger SSTO
than a two-stage kludge?

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