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SpaceShipTwo accident
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 |
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