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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Article on DC
- Message-ID: <BzqC0F.JA5@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:38:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.185210.27466@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Dec23.185210.27466@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >... Can someone explain in more detail Aerojet's
- >proposal for the DC-Y, the "integrated modular platelet engine"?
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- If I'm not mistaken, this was a scheme to build an aerospike engine as
- a ring of semi-independent segments, each looking like a flat (well,
- slightly curved) plate overall.
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