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What strikes me as odd is that spysat program histories seem more available than  some winged projects. I’m surprised that even Hexagon is known to a general (though limited) public. Could it be that a TSTO was attempted, but still fell short of what a modest Delta II could orbit…and they just didn’t want to look foolish? For example, I never believed in Aurora…but even if there had been…it would not have been as good as they thought it was.



I think even Seymour Bogdanoff lamented that a simple rocket will beat any (even classified) winged design…even if it does give itself away with a pop-up plume. Maybe materials advances and such will change that.


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