"Huge" wrote in message
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"Mike" writes:

"andrewpreece" wrote in message
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! AFAIK noone has done
anything like this, the X-prize contestants aren't anywhere near
orbital
velocity

Aren't they ? I thought the prize had been won. Don't they actually
have
to achieve orbit to win ?



No. Yes. No.

Is there a prize for real orbit then ?