On 11/12/14, 6:59 PM, Sylvia Else wrote :
On 11/11/2014 9:41 AM, wrote:
In article ,
Sylvia Else wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10...g_test_flight/


"The SpaceShipTwo vehicle uses a solid-fuel rocket to boost itself into
low earth orbit before gliding back down to Earth."

I suppose it was too much to hope that the journo would have done any
research before writing the article.

Well, technically it is solid fuel; it's the oxidizer that's liquid . . .


Er, no, I was referring to the low Earth orbit.

Very low Earth orbit, with perigee I don't know maybe 1000 km below the
surface? :-)


Alain Fournier