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CLV soon? Not according to the latest article I've seen
From a Florida Today article
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...608270331/1007 An initial Ares 1 test flight is scheduled for April 2009. The rocket will consist of a four-segment shuttle solid rocket booster with an inert fifth segment, a dummy upper stage and ballast in place of an Orion spacecraft. In the event of a failure, NASA will have the option of launching a second test flight six months later. An Ares 1 test flight with a five-segment solid rocket booster and an upper stage powered by a single J-2 engine is scheduled for July 2012. This certainly seems slow. Six years until a 5 segment SRB flight? This "shuttle derived" hardware is looking more and more like a pig every day (pork for ATK). I'd like to know how long it would take to design, build, and test fly a high thrust LH2/LOX upper stage for Atlas V and/or Delta IV. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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