> you also don't have the horizontal velocity of an aircraft to provide additional dynamic pressure at the critical pitch-up first turn phase of flight
Isn't one of the (few) advantages of balloon launch that this critical pitch-up maneuver is far less dramatic? At launch the rocket can already be oriented mostly vertical instead of mostly horizontal.
Of course this has the attendant disadvantage that your rocket starts with less kinetic energy.
Isn't one of the (few) advantages of balloon launch that this critical pitch-up maneuver is far less dramatic? At launch the rocket can already be oriented mostly vertical instead of mostly horizontal.
Of course this has the attendant disadvantage that your rocket starts with less kinetic energy.