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FARNBOROUGH: Virgin Galactic takes wraps off LauncherOne
"Sir Richard Branson stole the show
yesterday - swooping in by helicopter and all but renaming the event the Farnborough space show with a star- studded presentation of his Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2 and a bold plan to use the system to slash the cost of launching small satellites." See: http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...herone-374271/ |
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FARNBOROUGH: Virgin Galactic takes wraps off LauncherOne
Rick Jones scribbled something on Thursday the 12th:
I guess there wasn't enough in launching 6 people at a time on a sub-orbital hop at $200K each? I guess the order of magnitude difference in price between 6 people going sub-orbital and a satellite going orbital helps underscore the difference in effort. Even conventional airlines are as dependent on package hauling as they are on people hauling, and carrying the mail has paid a lot of bills for various passenger haulers. /dps -- Who, me? And what lacuna? |
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Rick Jones scribbled something on Thursday the 12th: I guess there wasn't enough in launching 6 people at a time on a sub-orbital hop at $200K each? I guess the order of magnitude difference in price between 6 people going sub-orbital and a satellite going orbital helps underscore the difference in effort. Even conventional airlines are as dependent on package hauling as they are on people hauling, and carrying the mail has paid a lot of bills for various passenger haulers. A related story - perhaps their first customer http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07...galactic_deal/ rick jones -- The computing industry isn't as much a game of "Follow The Leader" as it is one of "Ring Around the Rosy" or perhaps "Duck Duck Goose." - Rick Jones these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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Rick Jones wrote: I guess there wasn't enough in launching 6 people at a time on a sub-orbital hop at $200K each? I guess the order of magnitude difference in price between 6 people going sub-orbital and a satellite going orbital helps underscore the difference in effort. Alternatively it shows the difference between flights on a reusable vehicle and those on one-shots. Anthony |
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Rick Jones wrote:
I guess there wasn't enough in launching 6 people at a time on a sub-orbital hop at $200K each? I guess the order of magnitude difference in price between 6 people going sub-orbital and a satellite going orbital helps underscore the difference in effort. If you can take 6 people up at financial break even that should mean you can send a small satellite to orbit and turn a profit. Huge gain in the state of the art. |
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Doug Freyburger wrote:
Jeff Findley wrote: says... Rick Jones wrote: I guess there wasn't enough in launching 6 people at a time on a sub-orbital hop at $200K each? I guess the order of magnitude difference in price between 6 people going sub-orbital and a satellite going orbital helps underscore the difference in effort. If you can take 6 people up at financial break even that should mean you can send a small satellite to orbit and turn a profit. Huge gain in the state of the art. Please excuse the pun, but the small-sat market is rather... small. Unless they can bring the price down well below the competition (like Orbital Sciences Corporation), they won't be able to grow this market much. Is OSC down to $200k per launch now? Excellent. $200K is the price for a human to go sub-orbital, and that probably presumes there are 5 other paying customers coming along for the ride. (IIRC the capacity of a SpaceShipTwo is 6 passengers plus crew). For a satellite launch I believe the expected price from Virgin Galacit is on the order of $10 Million. rick jones -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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