Comments on: Everything about Stratolaunch is supersized https://www.isegoria.net/2018/08/everything-about-stratolaunch-is-supersized/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2018/08/everything-about-stratolaunch-is-supersized/comment-page-1/#comment-2654032 Sam J. Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:52:15 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=43846#comment-2654032 Just think of all the money spent on engineering and materials on that thing. A lot. It a new aircraft. He could have built an air augmented rocket for the first stage and a normal rocket for the second, I bet saved a fortune and probably not raised launch cost or reduced them.

gnom with 40% or better less weight for an ICBM

http://astronautix.com/g/gnom.html

“…for example Martin calculated in 1962 that the use of their Rocket Engine Nozzle Ejector system on the first stage of an orbital launcher would reduce total vehicle lift-off mass by 56% for the same net payload…”

Musk should use this. I’m sure he knows about it. He has followed a technological low path even if SpaceX is high risk. There’s o reason one couldn’t be added later.

]]> By: Questa Nota https://www.isegoria.net/2018/08/everything-about-stratolaunch-is-supersized/comment-page-1/#comment-2649591 Questa Nota Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:52:07 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=43846#comment-2649591 Will the test pilot become well-known like Chuck Yeager? Or will the craft have some automated robot pilot system to allow flight without a human in the cockpit?

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