On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Alex Fraser wrote:
> My first thoughts on reading....
> - Sounds too much like a SCUD, we must be anti that here.
Not necessarily anti all aspects of it. And you need a lot more crew than
that for a Scud, by the way...
> - No communications network. You could only talk to satellite a couple
> of times a week.
Depends on inclination. High-inclination LEO satellites, in particular,
typically give you a group of passes every twelve hours, each group being
two or three passes one orbital period apart.
> A non technical question for ERPS is how to get the resources on a
> grand enough scale to do a big project.
Do a succession of small projects, not a single big one. Given
cleverness, the result can often be similar.
> I brought it up as folks are talking about NASA
> problems and though it might be worth while figuring out how is ERPS
> going to avoid the same problems.
Stay small, be smart.
Henry Spencer
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