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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:02:35 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <93002.220235SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
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- Ed, having opinions about as tractable as an iridium lump does
- not help convince people, you know.
-
- 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)).
-
- This would seem to make a lot of sense; I did *not* understand him
- to be advocating *all* launches as being two stage, just those that
- would benefit from it. (Or are you arguing that there will never
- be any payloads that weigh too much for a DC-1?)
-
- Graydon
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