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>> No.11755163 [View]
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Is it even possible for Virgin Galactic to build something for air launch to orbit space tourism and still be competitive against the other spaceflight companies?

They deploy from the carrier aircraft at below 15 km in attitude compared to Crew Dragon which deploys at 200km and they still have to counteract the horizontal velocity. They would of course need much more fuel and be much heavier. They would also need to ditch their feathering system so maybe it would look like huge version of Dream Chaser. Is the problem that the carrier aircraft would have to bigger than anything feasible or that the efficiency gained from air launch not worth the added complexity?

>> No.11283121 [View]
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FIRST LAUNCH BAY-BE

>> No.11273383 [DELETED]  [View]
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I can't believe I haven't seen this posted here ever.

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