XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, us.military.army   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   Lofty Goat  wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:35:39 -0400, "Robert Clark"   
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >>I suggested in a post to my blog that solid rocket motors available to   
   >>amateurs working in high power rocketry can be used as the basis for   
   >>constructing *orbital* rockets that are within the capabilities of most   
   >>universities to build....   
   >   
   >It's an appealing idea, as long as what gets put into orbit then *leaves   
   >LEO and goes somewhere else*.   
   >   
      
   Well, that's not going to happen because the most you can put into LEO   
   this way is a few pounds, which isn't enough mass for a transfer motor   
   to take you anywhere.   
      
      
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