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Sure is a slow trip towards asteroid mining
1 posted on 12/11/2003 9:07:16 AM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
SpaceDev successfully test fired a motor with its proprietary propellant equal to about one-half the total capacity of the motor.

Proprietary.... Bah. If it's a hybrid, they're using LOX and (probably) paraffin. NASA, Stanford, and LockMart have been working hard on this for a while now.

2 posted on 12/11/2003 9:11:47 AM PST by r9etb
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To: RightWhale
Bring back Kiwi B. It produced more thrust with less fuel than any conventional engine.
4 posted on 12/11/2003 9:14:17 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: RightWhale
"Spaceshipone", n, 1. a telephone used to connect a space ship to the ground via a very long wire.

2. A space ship constructed of corn pone.

--Boris

5 posted on 12/11/2003 9:14:37 AM PST by boris (The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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To: KevinDavis
SPDV ping
8 posted on 12/11/2003 9:37:53 AM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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