Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Pegasus Message-ID: <1991Apr13.014851.22702@amd.com> Date: 12 Apr 91 18:40:12 GMT References: <1991Mar30.020340.27985@amd.com> <1991Apr12.055442.14741@amd.com> Sender: military@amd.com Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18 Approved: military@amd.com From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) >From: >If Pegasus could be miniturized enough, it could be launched from a smaller >aircraft (e.g. F-14 or other carrier-based aircraft). This would give >task-force commanders their own tactical satellite launching capability... >... any ideas about the feasibility of this? Nothing theoretically difficult about it. You'd need to scale down Pegasus considerably -- it's the size of a fighter and very heavy -- but it could be done. You'd also, as Gordon mentioned, need some quite small satellites to be the payloads. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry