ATK's Liberty rocket hopes to launch in 2015

Yes well, I'm still not clear what the love affair with solids is all
about. Obviously, from the pure thrust point of view and their simplicity,
they have a lot to commend them, but when you consider you cannot throttle
them, stop them once started, and their tendency to vibrate due to the
chaotic burning and changing internal capacity, they would seem to be only
of use for lifting a lot of heavy fuel such as they tend to be used for in
Shuttle and other boosters.


Brian

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JF Mezei explained on 5/10/2012 :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18017216

-Uses an extended SRB for first stage (I believe only a 4 segment one)

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Why not use an Ariane 5 rocket or Delta 4 and focus on the capsule ?


What do you think ATK makes, and how would this influence their
engineering decisions?

/dps "salt of the earth"

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