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Launching at 60k feet doesn't buy you many advantages except there's less atmospheric drag up there - it's about the speed, not so much the altitude. But you'd
by noselasd 12y ago
Launching at 60k feet doesn't buy you many advantages except there's less atmospheric drag up there - it's about the speed, not so much the altitude. But you'd gain the problem of hauling a ~500 ton rocket up to 60k feet, and you'd anyway have to launch that plane from ground zero.