Re: Exploding SSTOs

From: Randall R Randall (rrandall6@juno.com)
Date: Wed Aug 19 1998 - 11:41:37 MDT


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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:30:55 -0700 Philip Witham <p.j.witham@ieee.org>
writes:
Someone else wrote:

>>But that doesn't matter if you waste 90% of the payload and it blows
>>up 5% of the time; where's the cost saving?
>Are you also assuming your SSTO blows up 5% of the time? I would.

Why? You are assuming that ground controllers would
destroy a vehicle that is designed to be piloted back in
the event of a problem? Perhaps you were under the
impression that that 5% is due to explosive failure, rather
than the decision to abort?

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