[ExI] Launching Satellites from Airplanes DARPA

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 06:20:54PM -0800, spike wrote:

> My own experience with it is that the problem doesn't scale down very well.
> Every design I have derived has the cost per kg to LEO increasing
> dramatically once the total payload goes much below 1000 kg.  I am cheering
> wildly for anyone who can get those costs down.

A ton to LEO can go a long way. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SMART-1

-- 
Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
______________________________________________________________
ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org
8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A  7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE