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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: What is SSTO? Thoughts on Space.
- References: <1993Jan25.184843.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:41:55 GMT
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- nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
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- >If there is no [m]arket for SSTO, then why is there three contractors??
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- Right now there is a large surplus of launchers and a shortage of payloads.
- That hasn't stopped people from proposing new vehicles. If you include paper
- studies with little serious potential for succes (which I'm assuming the other
- SSTO proposals are) then there are probably several dozen new vehicles being
- proposed for a market that doesn't need them.
-
- >If the US Defense can let go some its budget we might be able to get the DC-X
- >up, I think the Japanese are working on alot of things, after all the have the
- >money.. A combo Gov/Private Corp effort..
-
- The DoD _is_ letting go of a large portion of its budget. It has however
- already paid for DC-X (which should not be confused with an orbital follow on).
-
- --
- Josh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- Q: How do you tell a novice from an expert.
- A: A novice hesitates before doing something stupid.
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