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Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 19:43:26 EST
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From: WOO IL LEE <lee@su-star>


	From "Aerospace Americe", Feb. 85, pg.1:

.......Robert Cooper, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, says that variable geometry hydrogen-burning supersonic-combustion
ramjets (SCRAMjets) "using current state-of-the-art technology" could take
off horizontally and accelerate to Mach 25, using existing Pratt & Whitney
RL-10 rocket engines for final orbit injection. Motivation for their 
development, he said, is the need to reduce payload launch costs to $100/lb.


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