[extropy-chat] delta 4

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'll notice that the center booster is common
> > construction to the two side boosters. Are these all solid rockets?
> 
> Liquids all.  They hafta be careful to fuel all three at the
> same rate so that they contract evenly as they cool.  Cool!  {8-]

Hey, does this booster use the closed system turbopumping technology
that Energia developed for their moon rocket? I have been seeing stuff
about the Russians selling this technology to US companies but was not
sure if anything was being put into use...

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
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