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Trying to double-up?
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/31/14...llite-contract
Suggests that a quintet of Iridium Next satellites will be lauched in conjunction with a pair of NASA satellites. It isn't entirely clear, but it appears the Iridium satellites are the hitchhikers. Given that SpaceX have launched 10 of the Iridium satellites in a single shot before, is this perhaps trying to squeeze things into a smaller number of launches? Schedule issues? rick jones -- Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that. - Anonymous these opinions are mine, all mine; HPE might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hpe.com but NOT BOTH... |
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On 2/1/2017 8:13 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
is this perhaps trying to squeeze things into a smaller number of launches? It could have just been a bargain. Perhaps Iridium got a good price on the excess capability of that one launch? One thing though, ten identical birds at one time, with all of them belonging to the same company, sounds like a huge crap shot to me. They could all be lost in a single launch failure, or (being identical) they could all share the same technical problem. Putting up a few at a time via shared launches sounds a whole lot safer. |
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Trying to double-up?
On 2/02/2017 1:46 PM, Vaughn Simon wrote:
On 2/1/2017 8:13 PM, Rick Jones wrote: is this perhaps trying to squeeze things into a smaller number of launches? It could have just been a bargain. Perhaps Iridium got a good price on the excess capability of that one launch? One thing though, ten identical birds at one time, with all of them belonging to the same company, sounds like a huge crap shot to me. They could all be lost in a single launch failure, or (being identical) they could all share the same technical problem. Putting up a few at a time via shared launches sounds a whole lot safer. Putting them up over several launches increases the chance that some are lost, so it's swings and roundabouts. Sylvia. |
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