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- From: george.gassaway@the-matrix.com (George Gassaway)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: DCX INFORMATION?
- Message-ID: <10808.409.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 23:13:00 GMT
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- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: george.gassaway@the-matrix.com (George Gassaway)
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- I'm new to this conference, and have read it with interest.
- All this info about DC versus shuttle in terms of costs, could someone
- please give some information about the DCX itself, the proto to be
- launched this summer?
- Approx size? (height, diameter)
- Liftoff mass, liftoff thrust?
- Test fliht profile, suborbital (how high) or orbital?
- re-entry technology, ablative, shuttle type panels, regen. cooling?
- landing method - parachute or power-on descent?
- Thanks.
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