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Virgin Galactic in HD
Botsareus:
Looks like they want 110km on average. Not too shabby.
Botsareus:
hohum, the LOE one is just a stupid two stager. The fins got me thinking it had a return plan for a sec.
Numsgil:
--- Quote from: vrukt on September 01, 2014, 06:05:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: Numsgil on September 01, 2014, 05:20:49 PM ---Is it meant to be able to achieve a proper LEO? Or does it just use a parabolic trajectory to get above the Karman line?
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Ya as far as I know they're just using a parabolic trajectory to get to the Karman line. First flight hit the Karman line mark of 100km to get the X-Prize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne#Development_and_winning_the_X_Prize
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Ah, that makes sense. I've been playing a lot of Kerbal lately, and I feel like I have at least some intuitive sense of what a ship that can reach orbit looks like. And that isn't it :)
Still, very cool.
vrukt:
Kerbal is a fantastic game, and ya that could definitely not reach LEO looking like that.
Maybe if they scale it up to 10x the size, slap another booster on it.
Always another booster.
Botsareus:
Too much boosters can be a bad thing too. Just look where the N1 ended up.
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