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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostOK, according to StratoLaunch's own website, here are the stats...
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And from that website you can go to Paul Allen's LinkedIn page, where he says...
So, max takeoff weight of 1.3 million pounds, payload of half a million pounds.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postbut that "payload" would have to include a rocket and the rocket's payload (satellite) since it launched the rocket which then carries the satellite to orbit.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostCorrect - the plane's own "payload" would be the launch rocket and the rocket's payload, which would need far less fuel launched from altitude than from a static "sheer thrust" state.
They should use giant blimps to lift the plane into the air which carries the rocket which carries the satellite!
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
They should use giant blimps to lift the plane into the air which carries the rocket which carries the satellite!
airshiprecord-1.jpgThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostInteresting - a balloon airship (unmanned and rather primitive) actually set an altitude record for such craft by reaching 95,000 feet.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI think the only problem with launching rockets from a blimp would be the sudden fiery death of the blimp upon launch of the rocket. But if they could drop the rocket first and then fire it off it could work.
Because of the large fuel consumption of its rocket engine, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at about 45,000 feet and speeds upward of 500 mph. Depending on the mission, the rocket engine provided thrust for the first 80 to 120 seconds of flight. The remainder of the normal 8- to 12-minute flight was without power and ended in a 200-mph glide landing. Because the nose landing wheel lacked steering and the main landing gear employed skids, the X-15 had to land on a dry lakebed. The Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to Edwards and Dryden was the intended landing location for all flights, but there were numerous emergency lakebeds selected in advance for emergency landings.
Them were fun days!
(of course, it wasn't intended to go into space, but...)The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostLike the good ol' X-15 launched from a B-52!
Because of the large fuel consumption of its rocket engine, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at about 45,000 feet and speeds upward of 500 mph. Depending on the mission, the rocket engine provided thrust for the first 80 to 120 seconds of flight. The remainder of the normal 8- to 12-minute flight was without power and ended in a 200-mph glide landing. Because the nose landing wheel lacked steering and the main landing gear employed skids, the X-15 had to land on a dry lakebed. The Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to Edwards and Dryden was the intended landing location for all flights, but there were numerous emergency lakebeds selected in advance for emergency landings.
Them were fun days!
(of course, it wasn't intended to go into space, but...)
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYeah, that seems more Challenging (get it?) than just "dropping" one from the carrier. It seems like the risk is to both of those aircraft, where as just "dropping one" clears both immediately.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostI shall make a Resolution to Endeavor to Discover a way to do so.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Roy View Post"the aircraft is intended to carry up to 550,000 pounds to an altitude of 35,000 feet. "
Not sure if that is gross payload (in which case the cargo would be 50klb) or net.
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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View PostSo - the argument for 1-2 percent means starting at sea level. So how much of that 98 percent is reduced by taking off 6 miles of altitude and adding 4 or 500 miles per hour to the initial velocity? The percentage reduction could theoretcially become payload.
Jim
(Not sure I worded that right - we're not just changing from a "dead lift" at sea level to a "dead lift" at altitude)The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Christianbookworm View PostWere space shuttles actually launched from airplanes? I thought that was just in a movie. It didn't work out to well in the movie either.
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