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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:06:18 GMT
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- In <1992Dec9.175236.8649@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >SSTO masses 100 times it's payload while a supertanker's payload masses
- >100 times the vehicle mass.
-
- No it doesn't. The dry weight of an SSTO is very small. Most of
- the loaded weight is liquids. Just like a supertanker. Tankers
- do not (normally) draw fuel from their cargo stores because a) the
- customers don't like that and b) crude oil has a tendancy to explode
- if you use it as bunker fuel. That does not change the fact, however,
- that a supertanker, like an SSTO, is mainly a big liquid storage tank.
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