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    Whom do you think will win the X-Prize and why?

    If any of you read "Aviation Week and Space Technology" DARPA has a concept called RASCAL, I think. It is like burt rutan's design, but the neat part is it uses an old F100 engine. To make this engine work at extreme altitudes they inject oxygen and water when they reach those altitude(to add...
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    Calculating gravity in rotating frame(ECR)

    In reading through URL=ftp://164.214.2.65/pub/gig/tr8350.2/wgs84fin.pdf]this[/URL] pdf I came across the potential described on pg 51. I have no problem with the spherical harmonic expansion of the gravitational force, however I'm a bit confused about the phi potential added to account for the...
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