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June 23rd 11, 10:12 PM posted to sci.space.tech
Jeff Findley
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Space Solar Power * Recent Conceptual Progress
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In article ,
Sylvia Else wrote:
On 21/06/2011 7:55 AM, Matt wrote:
Skylon, cool as it is, has shown nothing to indicate it has solved the
classic SSTO problem: when you get into building actual hardware and
the design gets toward CDR, the payload mass faction drops rapidly to
zero. There has to be some technological breakthrough to make this
succeed in SSTO while being affordable to build, and I don't see it.
The breakthrough is the SABRE engine.
Sylvia.
Has it gone past conceptualizing in any way at all?
They've started building and testing pieces in the lab, but that's about
it. It's going to be a multi-billion dollar research and development
program for sure.
Jeff
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