[ExI] Launching Satellites from Airplanes DARPA

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 03:27:51PM -0800, Dennis May wrote:
> A guy I went to college with worked on Pegasus 
> sometime during in the 1985-1987 time frame.

Newer ideas go into directions of a maglev launch
platform releasing a 100 t payload, with subsequent
scramjet/rocket ascent to LEO, potentially single-stage.

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