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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on December 28, 2006, 10:30:54 am
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Link to full article (http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/12/27/hypersonic-space-planes-promise-2-hour-flights-to-the-other-side-of-the-earth/)
Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane, and The Astrox Corporation, along with their partners, are claiming to have finally overcome their largest problem, mixing fuel.
Now how to distinquish such a space plane on a suborbital path from a missile.
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Link to full article ([url]http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/12/27/hypersonic-space-planes-promise-2-hour-flights-to-the-other-side-of-the-earth/[/url])
Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane, and The Astrox Corporation, along with their partners, are claiming to have finally overcome their largest problem, mixing fuel.
Now how to distinquish such a space plane on a suborbital path from a missile.
Missiles don't get held at the gate or suffer weather delays.
Missiles don't loose your luggage.
No one cares if you smoke aboard a missile.
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Link to full article ([url]http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/12/27/hypersonic-space-planes-promise-2-hour-flights-to-the-other-side-of-the-earth/[/url])
Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane, and The Astrox Corporation, along with their partners, are claiming to have finally overcome their largest problem, mixing fuel.
Now how to distinquish such a space plane on a suborbital path from a missile.
Missiles don't get held at the gate or suffer weather delays.
Missiles don't loose your luggage.
No one cares if you smoke aboard a missile.
Now why did I suddenly get a picture of Slim Pickens in my head? :D
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Link to full article ([url]http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/12/27/hypersonic-space-planes-promise-2-hour-flights-to-the-other-side-of-the-earth/[/url])
Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane, and The Astrox Corporation, along with their partners, are claiming to have finally overcome their largest problem, mixing fuel.
Now how to distinquish such a space plane on a suborbital path from a missile.
Not to mention the fact that you'd have to deal with 4-5 G acceleration in order to reach orbit. I can imagine a passenger space shuttle taking off...all the people strapped in and their faces mushed back as the sucker blasts off =)
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Why did I get an image of a young woman with breasts implants on a 4G takeoff? If you could move your head around at all during such a takeoff I would think that it should be easy to tell which of the femal passengers have real, and which have fake.
Would someone like Joan Rivers be able to get their face to snap back into place after the Gs?
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That womans had so much plastic surgery then when she raises her eyebrow, she also pulls up her panty hose.
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It would take longer to accellerate to Mach 25 at a comfortable rate than actual mach 25 flight. It would also take just as long to decellerate comfortably.
Anyone know how long a 2G accel/decel to mach 25 would take?
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Link to full article ([url]http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/12/27/hypersonic-space-planes-promise-2-hour-flights-to-the-other-side-of-the-earth/[/url])
Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane, and The Astrox Corporation, along with their partners, are claiming to have finally overcome their largest problem, mixing fuel.
Now how to distinquish such a space plane on a suborbital path from a missile.
Looks like they're at least six years behind schedule ;) ;D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Kmelew/ori1_jp.jpg)