New Japanese Solid Rocket On Way

"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
hopes next year to begin full-scale development of
its three-stage Advanced Solid Rocket (ASR), with
a first launch to follow in 2012 or 2013.

To be built by IHI Aerospace, the ASR is Japan's
proposed future launcher for medium scientific
payloads. JAXA also is studying a further
development that would cut costs partly by using
a fuel that could be melted and formed into a solid
engine at less than the boiling temperature of water.
That follow-on rocket could be available for
commercial use, according to ASR project leader
Yasuhiro Morita."

See:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...l&headline=New
Japanese Solid Rocket On Way&channel=space

wrote:
To be built by IHI Aerospace, the ASR is Japan's
proposed future launcher for medium scientific
payloads. JAXA also is studying a further
development that would cut costs partly by using
a fuel that could be melted and formed into a solid
engine at less than the boiling temperature of water.
That follow-on rocket could be available for
commercial use, according to ASR project leader
Yasuhiro Morita."

A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.
As far as the low melting point fuel goes, does this sound like a good
idea on a hot and sunny day at the launch complex?



Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.

Kind of a waste without a C/B/N warhead though?

As far as the low melting point fuel goes, does this sound like a
good idea on a hot and sunny day at the launch complex?

Doesn't Godzilla breath fire?

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Rick Jones wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:
A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.

Kind of a waste without a C/B/N warhead though?

The Japanese are essentially number one on the list of nations
currently without such technologies that are believed to be able to
deploy them on short order.

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Derek Lyons wrote:
Rick Jones wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.

Kind of a waste without a C/B/N warhead though?

The Japanese are essentially number one on the list of nations
currently without such technologies that are believed to be able to
deploy them on short order.

True - but to think that they would rather presumes their post-WWII
conversion to the Light Side is not complete?

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On Nov 10, 2:08*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:

A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.

Check out the M-V. For that matter, check out the latest model
Shavit, the ones that launched the latest Ofeks.

Rick Jones wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:
Rick Jones wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.

Kind of a waste without a C/B/N warhead though?

The Japanese are essentially number one on the list of nations
currently without such technologies that are believed to be able to
deploy them on short order.

True - but to think that they would rather presumes their post-WWII
conversion to the Light Side is not complete?

The completion or lack thereof of their conversion is relevant only to
their intention, not to their ability.

D.
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Rick Jones wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
A lot of people suspect that ASR will also be deployed as a IRBM.

Kind of a waste without a C/B/N warhead though?

When North Korea was rattling its saber a few years back and flew the
IRBM over Japan, a representative of the Japanese government stated that
although Japan didn't have any nuclear weapons in stock, it could have
some ready to go in in a few weeks from the word "go".
So they must have the all the components needed in-hand, and need only
prepare the plutonium pits to go into the warheads.

Pat

Derek Lyons wrote:
The Japanese are essentially number one on the list of nations
currently without such technologies that are believed to be able to
deploy them on short order.

Pyongyang is going to be very surprised when a 200-foot-long silkworm
egg parachutes out of the sky into its downtown area one day. ;-)
I'm trying to remember how long the Japanese official stated it would
take to have the warheads ready; he used a very specific number of days
(45, 65?) to indicate that the whole operation was ready to swing into
action as soon as the word was given.

Pat

Allen Thomson wrote:

Check out the M-V. For that matter, check out the latest model
Shavit, the ones that launched the latest Ofeks.

Shavit is the other way around; a satellite launch derivative of the
operational Jericho line of missiles.

Pat