Selenian Boondocks has an interesting post on whether it's reasonable (or not) to assume that current suborbital private spacecraft efforts will scale up to orbital. Conventional wisdom says no (25-81 times the energy would be needed); Jonathan Goff says yes, because all the hard work is at the bottom of the atmosphere and that only 1.5-4x is needed (via Simberg).
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