Why escape velocity? Just orbital is good enough. A powerful ion propulsion can slowly add 4km/s to achieve that.
2013/11/5 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Did you say Mach 6? >> > > You heard the man. Mach 6. That's 4,567.2423 mph says Mr. Google. > > Not escape velocity, which is Mach 34. That's what I would aim for. It > seems like it would more trouble than it is worth staying in the > atmosphere, with all that heat. > > - Jed > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
