The feasibility of all weather launch capability

[Nothalogh]

2 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

High-altitude winds are pretty difficult to avoid or counter. Shear will rip a rocket apart. You can do something like Stratolaunch to get above the wind, but then takeoff conditions become problematic.

Seems like the Minuteman deals with this with massive TWR in the first stage, and the old Titans dealt with it with surplus dv for course corrections.

Not sure either of those methods lend themselves to launches of fragile satellites or humans 

[Nothalogh]

Now, the high trajectory of the F9 first stage should lend itself to reducing the effects of wind at various altitudes since it spends less time in each strata 

Edited June 3, 2017 by Nothalogh

[DDE]

I know that ICBMs are rated to survive nearby blasts...

On ‎03‎.‎06‎.‎2017 at 6:14 AM, ZooNamedGames said:

it's difficult to find a survivor of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Spoiler

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (March 16, 1916 – January 4, 2010) was a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.

Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day, and despite his wounds, he returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning he was telling his supervisor how one bomb had destroyed the city, to which his supervisor told him that he was crazy, and at that moment the Nagasaki bomb detonated.

[Nothalogh]

3 hours ago, DDE said:

That morning he was telling his supervisor how one bomb had destroyed the city, to which his supervisor told him that he was crazy

The boss never believes my excuses