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- From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
- Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:35:22 GMT
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- > Paul Dietz writes:
- >
- > The mass ratio on an airliner is much less than in a launcher with
- > chemical rocket propulsion, for rather fundamental reasons. It is
- > therefore not inconceivable that multistage launchers would be
- > appropriate even though multistage aircraft are not.
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- If the delta V needed to get to orbit were only 5000 meters per
- second rather than the 9000+ meters per second which we have to deal with, we
- would never be having this discussion. No-one would think of building a two
- stage rocket. Clearly, the Earth is no place for a space-faring
- civilization. Time to move to Mars :-)
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- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
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