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To: Dagnabitt

It’s not the only one, but yes. The OP’s mention of the Russians launching a Soyuz in very heavy snow - that was only possible because of their booster type and (relatively) low crosswinds.

Some of the big SSTO concepts would have much better crosswind tolerance as well as crossrange performance; unfortunately, NASA killed some of them off in the 90s to protect their precious shuttle and the replacements that started recently have not yet had anything really flyable.


231 posted on 05/27/2020 2:59:36 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Thanks all for watching, see you on Saturday!


232 posted on 05/27/2020 3:02:54 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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