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Article #7260Re: Saving an overweight SSTO....
From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:47
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:47
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In <1jpcvtINNmjh@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes: >How about this. ping pong around. HawaII to Ecuador. Ecuador to Spain. >Spain to Tanzania. Tanzania to India, India to Australia, Australia >to Hawaii. >You bounce around and just keep meeting cargos. The problem is, that assumes an equal number of cargoes in all locations, which wouldn't be the case. You'd have a lot of cargoes waiting for you in Hawaii, fewer in India and Australia, practically none in Ecuador and Tanzania. Ideas like this make sense when you're talking about expendable artillery shells, and the emphasis is on maximum performance, but when you're talking about airplanes -- or spaceships -- operational considerations must take precedence.
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