Doug Jones wrote:
> > URL: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/india-01i.html
> >
> http://www.andrews-space.com/en/news/publications.html
>
> * the system must have airbreathing engines which *also* must be
> hauled to orbit- or else the system is no better than a simple
> two-stage rocket. Two stage to orbit is easy- why bother with
> making LOX?
I agree with Doug. The system looked like a lot of extra complication
with a low or unclear payoff. Remember that India is the country that
is still manufacturing the Royal Enfield, a British designed motorcycle
from *1938*, still being made the same way as always, to this day.
You can buy a living motorcycle fossil. This space plane looks like
a rocket version of the Royal Enfield. spike
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