Galt's Gulch

Orbital Corp. launches rocket to space station after solar scare; food, ants stashed away

Posted by mminnick 12 years, 5 months ago to Technology
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Capitalism at work, and it really works.
I know that some of the launch facilities (if not all)were supplied by the government, but they were paid a fee for their use.
SpaceX is next
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/09/company-shoots-for-va-launch-to-space-station/?intcmp=latestnews

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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 12 years, 5 months ago
    Wikipedia has an article about the history of private spaceflight.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spa...

    "But Thursday's launch marked Orbital's debut delivery flight to the space station under its NASA contract. The company plans to launch eight missions by 2016, three of them this year, to deliver 40,000 lbs. (20,000 kg) of supplies to the station. NASA also has a $1.6 billion deal with the Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX for 12 delivery missions to the station, two of which have already flown." - from Space.com via Yahoo News.
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    • Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 5 months ago
      Screw everybody.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_...


      I'm beginning to think the term "NASA engineer" is an oxymoron.
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      • Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        db was working as an engineer at the time on this stuff for McDonnell Douglas. The concept was how to get all this kind of stuff (SDIO) up there, track it all, every single ICBM and decoys and space fragments etc. Of course much of this research evaporated under Clinton. It's a shame, really. I'd love to see more development in 1) communications 2) satellite imagery and UAVs.
        There has not really been a killer app for space in the venture world. maybe manufacturing at 0 g (db just said that to me)
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        • Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 5 months ago
          :waves: Hi, db!

          The Delta Clipper design that Pournelle pushed was the type of ship used in "Fallen Angels" (big surprise). One of the drool-inspiring aspects of it was a 9 day turnaround time, a semi-trailer of mission control personnel, and a small fraction of the cost of a NASA launch.

          I try to imagine the explosion into space that would represent, and "screw everybody" is the nicest phrase I can come up with.
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