I should clarify: when I said that Sep 11 cast a shadow over
the prospects for cheap (unmanned) space launch schemes,
I never meant to suggest that *I* thought this was a big
deal. Only that many people would be inclined to think so.
In a democracy, what many people think (rightly or not) makes
a
Jack, you might have it all wrong about the Mexicans stealing
a march on us with their secret launch facility in Cuba.
I mean, maybe they *think* they are stealing a march,
but they are actually clueless. Really, they are way behind
the game.
Last night we were treated to quite a sight: Mars rig
Yep. That's what worked for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It got them
into the rocket launching business ...
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The best launch platform for any significant space exploration venture is a safe and
secure country buffered by an integrated intelligence and military community rendered
supremely capable and thoughtfully marshaled internationally, thereby moving the
theater of conflict between ourselves and t
You know what's really frustrating? That I currently live in an otherwise wonderful country that has a government that has messed up badly and left 9 million unemployed while asking for $87 billion on top of the $79 billion they already got to allegedly clean up a mess they created! And here we
The urban legend gets new life. This started out as a JATO unit strapped to
a car in New Mexico. Now S-5 has taken its place.
Mickey D. Schmidt, Dir.
USAF Academy Planetarium
Battlespace Awareness Warfighting Laboratory
USAF Academy, CO 80840
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Sorry to put the final nail in the coffin of the S5, but I have it on
good account that the last existing 3rd stage engine, for which there
are no existing plans or other prototypes, was obliterated in a high
speed impact.
Seems an LSD-addicted grad student/intern working at the Space Center
here
As long as we're still off-topic, please note an admirable catalogue
of proposed micro-/nano-/pico-thruster technologies, found in
the following paper:
A Systems Study on How to Dispose of Fleets of Small Satellites
Jason M. Andringa, Daniel E. Hastings
http://ssl.mit.edu/publications/t
