[amsat-bb] Re: Satellite Satire

[Diane Bruce]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:20:11PM +1100, Tony Langdon wrote:
> At 11:57 AM 11/30/2011, Lowell White wrote:
> 
> >Please enlighten me if indeed there might be a way to get something up 
> >(and to
> >stay up) more economically.
> 
> Well, a bit of physics here.  To get from the Earth's surface to LEO 
> requires 10 km/S of delta-V.  Even if you could get a payload to 

It is an old old idea .

for one link http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rockoon.htm

I see WB8ELK has been doing it too
http://hiwaay.net/~bbrown/

Still, getting the right ratio of balloon/rocket is a problem. 
Getting the delta V into LEO is still going to be very hard.

> 
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> 

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