[ExI] Launching Satellites from Airplanes DARPA

[Stefano Vaj]

On 8 November 2011 08:17, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

*This* would indeed be cool...

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Stefano Vaj
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