On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:47:45 -0500 (EST), Henry Spencer
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>> IMHO, this takes much of the sting out of the "second site is too
>> expensive" argument, thus relieving TSTO of the RTLS requirement and
>> making it much more effective.
>
>Provided, of course, that there is a suitable landing location under the
>flight path at about the right distance.  "Suitable" obviously includes
>political considerations as well as technical ones...

Yes.  I'm working on that for rocket FedEx TSTO, but it's a low
priority.

>The nice thing
>about an RTLS lower stage is that it gives you all-azimuth operation with
>only one operations site to look after. 

Which is also very important for rocket FedEx, so I'm working on that
too...also at a low priority.

-R

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