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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:51:58 GMT
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- In <93002.220235SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
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- >What I understood Bruce to be proposing/discussing was the idea of
- >building a bottom stage for a DC-1 for those occaisons when a 'heavy'
- >payload needed launch. (Heavy - either something that grosses out
- >long before it bulks out the cargo bay, or something that is going
- >higher than LEO on one launch (for whatever reason)).
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- I understood that too. Perhaps you did not understand what I meant
- when I said, if there are enough heavy cargoes to justify a new
- vehicle, it would be more cost-effective to build a larger SSTO
- than a two-stage kludge?
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