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From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Heavy Lift Capacity Boosters
Message-ID: <1402@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 22 Sep 88 18:59:30 GMT
References: <677@eplrx7.UUCP> <2240@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN
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In article <2240@ssc-vax.UUCP> eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) writes:
 >
 >By varying the number of segments in the SRBs and the
 >number of SSMEs used, you can get different payloads.  For reference,
 >the Space Shuttle uses two 4-segment SRBs and 3 SSMEs.

How can you vary the number of segments in the SRBs?  Wouldn't
that change the combustion-chamber pressure rather
drasticaly?
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