Quote from: Antares on 05/09/2009 02:48 pmAnything you're going to find publicly is also going to be very generic. In the real world, every single one of these is going to be mission unique.It's like the cone vs the black line in hurricane forecasting. You seem to be trying to calculate a black line that's the same for every mission. In reality, there are just bounds on what the rocket can do (the cone). How it flies on launch day, the black line withing the cone, is subject to a long list of variables, requirements and optimizations of same. Where one rocket might be flying a steady zero or non-zero alpha, another one would be pitching. It's truly unique to each mission.AntaresThat is perhaps the very best example I have ever seen for any rocket's actual performance vs. its predicted performance.
Anything you're going to find publicly is also going to be very generic. In the real world, every single one of these is going to be mission unique.It's like the cone vs the black line in hurricane forecasting. You seem to be trying to calculate a black line that's the same for every mission. In reality, there are just bounds on what the rocket can do (the cone). How it flies on launch day, the black line withing the cone, is subject to a long list of variables, requirements and optimizations of same. Where one rocket might be flying a steady zero or non-zero alpha, another one would be pitching. It's truly unique to each mission.
How much easier would it be to make a battleship inline version of the ET than the real thing? Assuming it would still have enough payload to launch an Orion to the ISS. Since J-130 payload is predicted to be around 60mT, you'd have more than 30mT to play with.
Would a kerosene/LOX upper stage be easier to reuse on orbit than a LH2/LOX stage?
And for a wet workshop?
Hello to everyone, I ve got 2 questions... 1. How fast is a Satelit? 2. Why cant a satelit collide with another one?
My question is how much of a step up in technology or avionics etc would need to go into the rocket system to convert it to a small ICBM ?