On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Randall Clague wrote:
> I'm thinking that we should start with an ogive, and get throttling,
> tracking, and recovery issues down. Then if we think we can get
> significantly more performance out of a cone, we can switch nose
> cones.
People who really care about aerodynamic performance seem to generally
prefer ogives, in fact. You see cones on a lot of launchers because they
are easier to build and it just doesn't matter that much to something that
will be out of the atmosphere quickly anyway.
Henry Spencer
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