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- From: hugh@whio.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Hugh Emberson)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:01:50 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:07:18 GMT
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- >>>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:01:50 GMT, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said:
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- Henry> In article <1992Nov17.194901.16883@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Dr. Norman J. LaFave <lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov> writes:
- >... is it concievable that an SSTO vehicle could be built with the same
- >payload weight capability as the shuttle with the same base technologies?
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- Henry> Gary Hudson claims that you could put six SSMEs on a shuttle external
- Henry> tank, without SRBs, and get it into orbit carrying a payload about 50%
- Henry> greater than the shuttle's. It wouldn't be reusable, though.
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- This sounds a lot like Shuttle-C, whatever happened to that idea?
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- As I understand it, Shuttle-C was an idea for using up old SSMEs. The
- idea was to take a normal stack (an ET and 2 SRBs) and bolt on a
- fairing containing the payload and some SSMEs in place of the shuttle.
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- This was meant to be a cheap expendable HLV using parts that NASA was
- already familiar with. I guess it's payload would have been at least
- 100,000 lbs, probably a lot more. Some of the pictures I saw had 4
- SRBs.
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- Hugh
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