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- Path: sparky!uunet!digex.com!prb
- From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Saving an overweight SSTO....
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:04:45 GMT
- Organization: UDSI
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- References: <19752@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <19752@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
- >> Dani Eder writes:
- > Interesting idea. Without a full orbital flight, the DC-1 will not
- >be able to land at its launch site. Any idea on how far downrange the DC-1
- >would land, and whether this could be accomplished within the width of the
- >continental USA? If not, or a Florida launch is needed to get a 28.5 degree
- >orbit, where in Africa would be a suitable landing site? A quick look at a
- >globe suggests launching from Hawaii would require landing somewhere the the
- >northern half of south America. Return to the launch site would presumably be
- >by another suborbital hop, although this unfortunately means that two
- >refueling and launch sites are needed and two DC-1 flights are needed to put
- >1 payload into orbit.
- >
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- How about this. ping pong around. HawaII to Ecuador. Ecuador to Spain.
- Spain to Tanzania. Tanzania to India, India to Australia, Australia
- to Hawaii.
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- You bounce around and just keep meeting cargos.
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