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Re: We're here to go
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:05:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > Now the X prize vehicle doesn't give you manrated orbit capability per se, it's
> > a suborbital vehicle, at least at the 3 person payload that you needed to win
> > the prize. But I'm assuming (big assumption) some stretchability with loss of
> > payload so that instead of 3 people to suborbital, you stretch the vehicle a bit
> > with what you learned and can get it to get one person in LEO instead.(1)
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> The above assumption is massively invalid, apparently. The velocity achieved by
> SpaceShipOne is way way too low to be stretchable to LEO by leaving a few
> passengers out. I hadn't done my homework when I posted this, and I'm perfectly
> fine with admitting it.
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> Elsewhere in the thread I said I believed Rutan would make a profit on the prize
> (meaning his cost was well under 10M). That's not true either, apparently,
> although it wasn't a bad guess, he's not missing by orders of magnitude...
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> I'm still comfortable with my 12B figure though. Even if we don't still have
> Saturn Vs around. :-)
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> (why did I find this post? because I had a few minutes and was digging for
> tritium references. Didn't find any yet... ;-) )
The prize does not pay for the cost of development. SS1 is not going to go into
any kind of orbit. Both those are from a friend of mine who works on the
project (I literally asked him those very questions a few weeks ago).
-->Bruce<--
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