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"Blackstar", Real Or Bogus?
According to:
http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/ch...s/030606p1.xml The Pentagon secretly built and flew a secret, 2-stage-to-orbit Spaceplane called "Blackstar". Others, however, think the story is bogus: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Bl...room_Lake.html Who is right? Is "Blackstar" real or bogus? |
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"Blackstar", Real Or Bogus?
The article reads like it was put together by an aerospace conspiracy
theorist committee. It's got all the right buzzwords - reviving the XB70 Valkyrie, plausible deniability, secret accounting practices, CIA transport planes, boron-based rocket fuels, etc. I'm inclined to point toward popular military SSTO and TSTO concepts in the 1990s (e.g., Black Horse), which were simpler than possibly airbreathing spacecraft launched from all-new or revived trisonic mother ships, and used more mundane fuels (e.g., kerosene) than boron-loaded pastes. Then again, Lockheed's X33 was the bells-and-whistles, all-the-frills ubertech approach to the SSTO that NASA picked over lower-risk options. I wouldn't be surprised if the military was tricked into backing a similarly over-complex alternative for a TSTO. |
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