From: Michelle Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Aug 06 1998 - 20:50:39 MDT
mark@unicorn.com wrote:
> Gary Hudson is a pretty smart guy; if he says he can do it, I think he has
> a good chance of doing it. And, frankly, an 80% reduction over inflated
> government launch costs shouldn't be that hard. Mark
mark the reason i am having such difficulty with this concept is that the
roton is a re-entry system. you still have to lift the thing into orbit
somehow to reenter the atmosphere. the reentry system of modern
government launchers is neither the cost driver nor the weight driver. spike
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