Thread: Breaking News: Rocketplane reveal new configuration of Rocketplane XP at XPC
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Old 01-November-2007, 09:48 AM
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Rocketplane XP... Sounds like a Windows product.

Shouldn't it be Rocketplane Vista by now?

I don't understand the following comment, though:

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The J-85 afterburning jet engines provide increased thrust and allow the vehicle to reach an altitude of greater than 40,000 ft before the rocket engine is ignited.
The U-2 flies at twice that altitude without an afterburning engine. I've flown as high as 50,000 feet in an airplane without afterburning engines (we were on a long flight and decided to do it just because we could). Couldn't go higher because we didn't have pressure suits (against the regs).



Other than that, more power to them!
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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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