Henry Spencer wrote:
> Those are the customer's man-hours, not yours. You accept only palletized
> payloads. There is none of this business of custom treatment for each
> payload, or at least it's an extra-cost option rather than normal practice.
Actually, the original plan was to provide adapters for the "standard"
interfaces on all competing launch vehicles so if your satellite was
originally designed to go on an Arienne we'd have the adapter to
support your hookups aand that would anchor to our bay. Newer payloads
would likely be built to our published spec.
> Yeah, it's gonna be difficult to manage four man-hours per flight if the
> pilot's up there for ten or twelve. :-)
Huh? A pilot's time is FLIGHT time, not turn time. and he/she's only
up that long if the flight is going to LEO. Most flights won't, being
SSSO "hops" across the p/o/n/d/ Pacific or some such.
Michael
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