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From: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Secondary launch systems
Message-ID: <818@rover.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 23:45:09 GMT
References: <364@asuvax.UUCP| <6332@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
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In article <6332@spool.cs.wisc.edu| hollings@rocky.CS.WISC.EDU (Jeff Hollingsworth) writes:
|In article <364@asuvax.UUCP> system@asuvax.UUCP (Marc Lesure) writes:
|>With the recent passage of the INF tready, I was wondering if it would be
|>possible to destroy the warheads and recycle the delivery systems to be
|>used as a low level satellite launch system?  I don't know the details of
|
|Good idea, except the conditions of the INF tready call for the dectruction
|of the delivery systems, NOT the missiles.  Each side can do anything they
|want with the warheads!  Also the onsite inspection involves inspecting
|the plants to make sure both sides are not building new rockets of the same
|class.  So we can't even reuse the technology.
|
Seems to me that what happens to a non-reuseable launch vehicle is that it is 
destroyed when it re-enters.  There may be restrictions one how launch vehicles
are destroyed, but the simple requirement that they be destroyed is met by
a launch and re-entry.

Mark Huth