Brett Coster wrote:
>
> (...) I don't
> think it should be so difficult to get a blow up space hab lifted by the
> Russians or the European (not ENTIRELY French) Ariane or even the Chinese.
> Things like US comsats and earth resource camera sats have been lifted by
> all three without, I think, too much trouble apart from the odd Long March
> disappearing in a BIG puff of propellant and aluminium.
>
There is enough trouble with that - you simply don't know how difficult
it is working in this area after Clinton introduced paranoia in the
field. Just because one chinese-american allegedly stole something
that might have been used by the Chinese g*vernment :-(
For example, the USA wanted to rent the br launch site at Alcantara
[the best place in the world for launching satellites], but the conditions
were so perverse that it would make Alcantara an external territory
of the USA.
If this happens with USA-Brazil, imagine what happens with USA-Russia
or USA-China!
Alberto Monteiro
