Randall Clague wrote: > One wonders, then, about his titular identification of RLVs as > SSTOs. A book published in November 2003 should reflect the current > consensus among hardware developers that SSTO, while technically > interesting, is not on the road to commercial success.
Hmmm.... SSTO is, so far, what seems to get all the attention when folks think of reusable... staging tends to get equated with "throwing parts away"; multistage to orbit with retrievable stages has (so far at least; as you suggest, that may now be changing) not seen as much interest. (In his article on "The Future of Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion", Truax did propose 2STO with a parachute-recovered lower stage and a low-pressure, expendable upper.) -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
