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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Terminal velocity of DC-X?
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- -From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- -Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- -Date: 15 Dec 92 13:49:36 GMT
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- -Well we will launch that 400 pound Italian satellite. You remember, the
- -one NASA spent half a billion launching instead of putting it on a $10M
- -Pegasus?
-
- There are a sufficient number of good arguments to support continuation
- of the DC program that there's no need to resort to bad arguments. Are
- you seriously suggesting that Pegasus could put a 400 kg (not lb) satellite
- into a 5617 km x 5950 km x 52.6 degree orbit?
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- (I thought the post-introductory price of Pegasus was more like $16 M.)
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- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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