NASA Fails To Launch

Damocles said:
the same way it works when it reaches there to begin with, it carries it's own oxygen.
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The term for that is "rocket engine". I don't know if there is a commercially available jet engine that carries its own oxidizer and turns from jet to rocket but I see no theoretical reason why it wouldn't work.
 
Damocles said:
the same way it works when it reaches there to begin with, it carries it's own oxygen.
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DY was talking about a conventional jet aircraft carrying a rocket slung underneath its fuselage and then releasing it at 140,000 feet, he then amended it to 45,000 feet when he realised that jets cannot work at that altitude. I've already pointed out that Pegasus can be launched this way but it is only capable of inserting small payloads into low Earth orbit. The Glory satellite weighed around half a tonne and was due to orbit at 500 miles above the Earth. Pegasus is manufactured by the same company Orbital Sciences Corp that made the ill fated Taurus XL, so if that had been an option then I'm sure they would have used it.
 
Damocles said:
the same way it works when it reaches there to begin with, it carries it's own oxygen.
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There was a British project in the 1980s called Hotol, which had an engine designed by Rolls Royce that could perform as both a jet and a rocket but it was cancelled.

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tom prendergast said:
DY was talking about a conventional jet aircraft carrying a rocket slung underneath its fuselage and then releasing it at 140,000 feet, he then amended it to 45,000 feet when he realised that jets cannot work at that altitude. I've already pointed out that Pegasus can be launched this way but it is only capable of inserting small payloads into low Earth orbit. The Glory satellite weighed around half a tonne and was due to orbit at 500 miles above the Earth. Pegasus is manufactured by the same company Orbital Sciences Corp that made the ill fated Taurus XL, so if that had been an option then I'm sure they would have used it.
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Actually what you argued is this:

tom prendergast said:
The rocket blast would probably destroy the aircraft in the process.
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That's obviously not true, yet you lack the balls to admit that you are wrong, so you continue to misrepresent my position.

Are you still butt-hurt over you accusing me of being less educated, then me proving I'm better educated than you?
 
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