Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 05:04:36 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V16 #080 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Tue, 26 Jan 93 Volume 16 : Issue 080 Today's Topics: Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- id AA16027; Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:14:32 EST Received: from crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu by VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05737; 26 Jan 93 4:09:14 EST To: bb-sci-space@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!ewright From: "Edward V. Wright" Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: DC-1 eventual construction question... Message-Id: Date: 26 Jan 93 05:44:36 GMT Article-I.D.: convex.ewright.728027076 References: <1993Jan21.141726.1@max.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan26.024338.10181@iti.org> Sender: news access account Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: bach.convex.com X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and not necessarily those of CONVEX. Source-Info: Sender is really news@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU Source-Info: Sender is really isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU In <1993Jan26.024338.10181@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes: >If Uncle Sam doesn't pay for the initial development of the Y vehicle >(and possibly DC1) it won't happen. Period. That is by no means certain. Lockheed was ready to proceed with an SSTO using its own money, if the government was willing to get out of the way. Grumman was prepared to go ahead with the development of a smaller, commercial SSTO (Frequent Flyer) using its own funds, if SDIO had selected its proposal for the suborbital demonstration phase. Boeing is prepared to go ahead with an SSTO project, if it can be shown what the markets are. McDonnell Douglas found that the Japanese were willing to finance the development of DC-Y, provided they got access to the technology as well as a piece of the action (something the US State Department would probably never allow). >One DC-1 would be enough for almost all of the current launch market. That's because you're looking at the wrong market. Any vehicle that can reach orbit, single-staged, can reach Japan or Tokyo as well. There is a market for fast transportation, for people as well as cargo. Beyond that, space tourism is a major market -- much more so than the satellite launch market, according to G. Harry Stine. >BTW, it turns out that at least two other contractors have developed >SSTO designs. Five that I'm aware of, if you include assisted (air-launched) single- stage-to-orbit. (I assume you're limiting yourself to designs produced in the last couple years.) ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 16 : Issue 080 ------------------------------