Andrew Case wrote:
The original Kistler proposal (before the improvements) was a quite
nice TSTO with a dumb Launch Assist Platform that lifted the upper stage
clear of the atmosphere straight up. The upper stage separated and the
LAP dropped straight back down to the launch site.
Yes. You'll
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Ian Woollard wrote:
However, compared to a similar construction TSTO I found my payload
dropped precipitously, by 75%.
That's *really* bad.
No; why should it be? They're different classes of vehicles.
The original Kistler scheme, with the LAP, is *not* a TSTO -- it's an
Henry Spencer wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Ian Woollard wrote:
However, compared to a similar construction TSTO I found my payload
dropped precipitously, by 75%.
That's *really* bad.
No; why should it be? They're different classes of vehicles.
They're both strictly TSTO designs, and should be
At 08:32 PM 3/12/2004 +, Ian wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:
The original Kistler scheme, with the LAP, is *not* a TSTO -- it's an
assisted SSTO.
I don't really see that. As soon as you have that staging event, it's
clearly not SSTO. Or if you look at it as a near SSTO, SSTOs are
relatively
