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Suborbital is Next to Useless for Point to Point Travel

Posted on Tue, 2008-11-04 by gravityloss

Spacetransportnews has a link to another in the long list of nontechnical space dreams. Earth’s radius is about 7000 km. The Van Allen belts start somewhat above 500 km from Earth’s surface. Hence, ballistic arcs have to be either very … Continue reading →

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