On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:48:45 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The canonical figure is 10 km/s, despite a paper about ten years ago that
>fooled me and some others. Schemes to make any significant dent in that have
>born little fruit. If you accelerate faster to avoid gravity losses, your
>engines are heavier
That's actually what started all this. "Gee, do I really need those
big heavy high thrust engines...?" Yes.
-R
--
"Sutton is the beginning of wisdom -
but only the beginning."
-- Jeff Greason
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