[ExI] Launching Satellites from Airplanes DARPA

[Stephen Van Sickle]

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.
>

Are you familiar with Jordin Kare's Mockingbird?

http://www.quantumg.net/mockingbird.pdf

-sjv
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