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pjmoyer
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Jul-30-19, 01:38 PM (EDT) |
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18. "RE: CTCS 50th Anniversary: No Longer the Limit"
In response to message #17
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>>And the Comet. The biggest headache the Phoenix Flight mission >>planners faced was that the launch window was >< that wide, and there >>was only going to be one of them per century. > >That is indeed a pretty major limiting factor. Kinda makes the >likelihood of repeat flights pretty much nil. > >Unless they can come up with a different arrangement, maybe >multi-stage with teams of firebenders working in synch... gonna be >difficult. Well, by that point, they'd forego the "powered by firebending" plan and just go with the multi-stage liquid propellant launchers that had already been used for satellite launches. There hasn't been a return flight to Yue, however, since the need for that got superseded by the announcement of the Veil passages to Zipang and the people there. --- Philip
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