On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:20:11PM +1100, Tony Langdon wrote: > At 11:57 AM 11/30/2011, Lowell White wrote: > > >Please enlighten me if indeed there might be a way to get something up > >(and to > >stay up) more economically. > > Well, a bit of physics here. To get from the Earth's surface to LEO > requires 10 km/S of delta-V. Even if you could get a payload to
It is an old old idea . for one link http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rockoon.htm I see WB8ELK has been doing it too http://hiwaay.net/~bbrown/ Still, getting the right ratio of balloon/rocket is a problem. Getting the delta V into LEO is still going to be very hard. > > 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL > http://vkradio.com > - 73 Diane VA3DB -- - d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db Why leave money to our children if we don't leave them the Earth? _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
