[AR] Re: Pilot, ALASA, and cubesat launch (was Re: some interesting developments)

  • From: Nels Anderson <nels.anderson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:10:57 +0000

4 stages, I thought (and astronautix.com seems to agree).  The delta-V
is certainly the same is reaching orbit, though the guidance
requirements would be a little higher.

On 01/07/2016 02:33 PM, John Dom wrote:

In the fifties, there was the balloon launch project FARSIDE. Not mach 1 at 
start nut no aircraft required. Two stages to 4000 miles. Depending 
trajectory  it might make it to orbit (?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8KrEvT-wYQ

PS: even Minutemen were ignited in mid-air after being ejected from inside 
aeroplanes (C130s?), once upon a time.

jd 




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