On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:47:45 -0500 (EST), Henry Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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 -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
