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jabe
post Jan 4 2007, 02:47 AM
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Blue origins update..
go Bezos go
BTW hate the web page but neat videos.. From nasawatch resource
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post Jan 6 2007, 11:55 AM
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if you do a Hohmann-style rendezvous, you mean that you get there at apogee? Then your speed will be much smaller than a LEO station/satellite. In order to rendezvous you need to match speed as well, which basically means you need to be in LEO as well in this case, so it won't be suborbital anymore. You could drop something which has its own engines to get to LEO of course, but I think that won't be a very efficient way of getting stuff to LEO.
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post Jan 6 2007, 01:50 PM
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Absolutely!

Going straight up with a VTVL first stage, then ejecting an upper stage which blasts sideways until it's in orbit, could just just about be done. It might even be 'efficient' insofar as the first stage would return to it's launch site with no down-range infrastructure, but in energy terms it would be far from efficient (so much so that even for a large first stage the orbital payload might be of trivial size).

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- jabe   Blue Origins   Jan 4 2007, 02:47 AM
- - helvick   I was always a fan of the DC-X concept so this rea...   Jan 4 2007, 09:42 AM
- - djellison   Well - consider the Atlas-Mercury flights. That w...   Jan 4 2007, 10:04 AM
- - tty   The first stage of Titan I had genuine SSTO capabi...   Jan 4 2007, 11:16 AM
- - edstrick   With adequate heat shielding, a vehicle derived fr...   Jan 4 2007, 12:53 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   Back in the 1960s there were a number of paper stu...   Jan 4 2007, 08:27 PM
- - climber   The goal here is "only" to get to 100 km...   Jan 4 2007, 08:19 PM
- - nprev   As a side note, this test is getting a lot of medi...   Jan 5 2007, 01:36 AM
- - edstrick   X33 was a good idea to follow up the DC-X with, bu...   Jan 5 2007, 09:50 AM
- - nprev   With respect to Blue Origin, a friend of mine ...   Jan 6 2007, 12:52 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 6 2007, 12:52 AM) un-n...   Jan 6 2007, 01:32 AM
- - nprev   Wellll....I'm not much of an orbitsmith yet, B...   Jan 6 2007, 02:58 AM
- - remcook   if you do a Hohmann-style rendezvous, you mean tha...   Jan 6 2007, 11:55 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   Absolutely! Going straight up with a VTVL fir...   Jan 6 2007, 01:50 PM
- - nprev   Yeah (sigh), that's probably quite true; a use...   Jan 7 2007, 03:47 AM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 6 2007, 10:47 PM) Yeah...   Jan 9 2007, 06:35 PM
- - edstrick   I have wondered if a 2 stage double DC-X type migh...   Jan 7 2007, 09:51 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   I think the word you're looking for is 'Ki...   Jan 7 2007, 01:48 PM
- - edstrick   The Kstler vehicles are being soft <parachute a...   Jan 8 2007, 12:22 PM
- - djellison   With such high gravity to fight against, and a nic...   Jan 8 2007, 01:03 PM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 8 2007, 01:03 PM) ...   Jan 8 2007, 02:55 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (AndyG @ Jan 8 2007, 06:55 AM) Comp...   Jan 8 2007, 04:35 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jan 8 2007, 05:35 PM)...   Jan 8 2007, 07:48 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (climber @ Jan 8 2007, 07:48 PM) I ...   Jan 8 2007, 10:22 PM
|- - mchan   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jan 8 2007, 02:22 PM) S...   Jan 9 2007, 03:53 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (mchan @ Jan 9 2007, 03:53 AM) Ahh,...   Jan 9 2007, 08:37 AM
- - nprev   Well, it actually was just a back-of-the envelope ...   Jan 11 2007, 02:07 AM
- - edstrick   Landing an Apollo like capsule on rockets is -- of...   Jan 11 2007, 12:21 PM


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