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From: beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: SSX: Space Ship Experimental (summary)
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Date: 16 Jan 90 22:41:57 GMT
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In article <9001121009.AA01853@zit.cigy.> bpistr@cgch.UUCP writes:
"The following was extracted from the Byte Information Exchange in the
"space/long.messages #750, from hvanderbilt, 13708 chars, Fri Jan 12 02:24:37 1990
"                      Space Ship Experimental 
" 

An area where this concept might need some serious new techonology would
be rockets designed to operate for hours instead of minutes.
Expendables run for minutes and chuck the engine.  The shuttle .. well
excessive maintainance is what this SSX is supposed avoid.  When have
have rocket engines been designed to operate with low maintainence for
lots-o-launches?  Otherwise this sounds like a sound idea for some
goverment agency to throw big bucks at.

David Becker  beckerd@cs.unc.edu