[ExI] UK Skylon spaceplane passes key review

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:53:15PM -0700, Keith Henson wrote:

> That reduced the cost to GEO to $100/kg or less.
> 
> As I have been ranting about for some months.

This is cool stuff for sure, but Skylon has been in the making 50 years
by now. Making accurate cost predictions about a technology (or
even several speculative technologies) that hasn't flown yet 
nevermind might never fly isn't very useful.


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