Lessons Learned

In article , Tom Merkle wrote:

The only rule that frustrates me is #3. I have a cable modem, but
somehow you have the magical ability to respond to my (and others')
posts before they ever appear, so that your response appears at the
same time as the post. How do you do it? What's the secret?

I suspect it involves not using Google, which often has a few hours
latency :-)

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-Andrew Gray

In article ,
Jim Kingdon wrote:
On the commercial side, the biggest ones are the GEO comsats going up
on Sea Launch, Ariane V, etc. And although there has been some
tendency to go for larger satellites, it isn't really outrunning
available launchers these days.

That's partly because the comsat builders really don't want to be captive
to one launch supplier, not just because of price but also because of
things like downtime after failures. The size of the top-end comsats, at
any given time, is usually driven by the limits of the *second*-largest
operational commercial launcher.
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