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surface-to-orbit

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  • For surface-to-orbit vehicles, I employed methane/oxygen SSTO rockets, and assumed that the vehicles need to have a dry mass for thermal protection, engines, landing gear, etc. excluding tankage that is equal to their payload, or 50 tonnes.

    The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

  • Moreover, it is an unsuitable propellant for a cheap reusable space transportation system, since its costs exceed methane/oxygen propellant by more than an order of magnitude and its bulk makes it very difficult to transport to orbit in any quantity using reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicles (thus ruling it out for true cheap surface-to-orbit systems).

    The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

  • For surface-to-orbit vehicles, I employed methane/oxygen SSTO rockets, and assumed that the vehicles need to have a dry mass for thermal protection, engines, landing gear, etc. excluding tankage that is equal to their payload, or 50 tonnes.

    The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

  • Moreover, it is an unsuitable propellant for a cheap reusable space transportation system, since its costs exceed methane/oxygen propellant by more than an order of magnitude and its bulk makes it very difficult to transport to orbit in any quantity using reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicles (thus ruling it out for true cheap surface-to-orbit systems).

    The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

  • Though tolerable, the shuttle journey was rougher than his single previous experience with the little surface-to-orbit vessels.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Though tolerable, the shuttle journey was rougher than his single previous experience with the little surface-to-orbit vessels.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Though tolerable, the shuttle journey was rougher than his single previous experience with the little surface-to-orbit vessels.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Though tolerable, the shuttle journey was rougher than his single previous experience with the little surface-to-orbit vessels.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • No co-pilot's necessary on a surface-to-orbit hop, and you'll get a good view from there. "

    A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel Ann Wilson

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