Re: Station-building: a vessel proposal

[David Henderson <orbiter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Once I've reinstalled 3DS-MAX I'll put some time in for this... David's
> A5 module launcher is, of course, The Competition to the _obviously_
> superior cargo spaceplane project, which I'll also be working on. :-)

I'd be willing to help out on that, obviously, I just can't design in 3D
to save my life! ;-)

I'm thinking we should develop these in tandem to use common modules. ie.
maybe have a common payload bay geometry. Mine's presently 11x8x8 useable
and 13x4x4 usable (tapers at the top) and a ~12 tonne lift weight.

> I'll certainly have a play with this, though. I have two separate
> designs in mind:
> 
> (1) something close to David's request - about the size of a module-2, 4
> tons when full of fuel.
> 
> (2) something about the size of a module-1, launched empty and topped
> off from reserve fuel during each spaceplane flight.

I was thinking, additionally, about a tank that "wraps around and above" a
module-I. But that would probably be considerably larger than 4 tonnes,
thinking about it!

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