Woomera chosen as launch site for ISS resupply

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...8/s1719530.htm


Sorry if this has already been mentioned here.

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Woomera chosen as rocket launch site for space station

"Rockets will be launched from Woomera in outback South Australia to the
International Space Station (ISS), starting in 2008.

"NASA has selected two American companies to launch rockets from Woomera.
Rocket Plane Kistler and Space-X will conduct orbital flight tests as well
as commercial operations from a spaceport at Woomera, and carry cargo to the
ISS.

"It is believed Leighton Contractors will build the Woomera launch
facilities.

"Woomera was originally involved in testing of long-range missiles and
rockets during the Cold War."

Neil Gerace wrote:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...8/s1719530.htm





I'll be damned- Australia is back in the space race! David Sander is
going to flip over this.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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I'll be damned- Australia is back in the space race! David Sander is going
to flip over this.

Got to be cheaper and easier than trying to launch anything at KSC with NASA
looking over your shoulder and objecting every time you don't do things
"their way".

Jeff
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Jeff Findley wrote:

Got to be cheaper and easier than trying to launch anything at KSC with NASA
looking over your shoulder and objecting every time you don't do things
"their way".

Jeff
I dunno, after you do the ITAR paperwork required to re-export your
1970s Russian engines to a foreign country, it might not be

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:08:01 -0400, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:


Got to be cheaper and easier than trying to launch anything at KSC with NASA
looking over your shoulder and objecting every time you don't do things
"their way".

Don't count on it. Bureaucrats are bureaucrats, and Australia isn't
immune to them. Give them time, and they'll get just as anal as NASA
and the Air Force. Especially if something goes wrong early on, like,
say, SpaceX dropping its payload on a nearby warehouse... again.

Besides, does the world really need yet another expendable launch
vehicle base? All the existing ones are underused as it is. There's a
lot of real estate at the Cape (Pad 36, anyone?), with nice payload
processing facilities ready and waiting...

Somehow, I get the feeling this Woomera plan will never see the light
of day.

Brian

Pat Flannery wrote:
Neil Gerace wrote:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...8/s1719530.htm





I'll be damned- Australia is back in the space race! David Sander is
going to flip over this.

Pat



Austraila? Isn't that where the U.S. tosses its old space stations?

;-)

Rusty

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:59:14 -0500, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:08:01 -0400, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:


Got to be cheaper and easier than trying to launch anything at KSC with NASA
looking over your shoulder and objecting every time you don't do things
"their way".

Don't count on it. Bureaucrats are bureaucrats, and Australia isn't
immune to them. Give them time, and they'll get just as anal as NASA
and the Air Force. Especially if something goes wrong early on, like,
say, SpaceX dropping its payload on a nearby warehouse... again.

Besides, does the world really need yet another expendable launch
vehicle base? All the existing ones are underused as it is. There's a
lot of real estate at the Cape (Pad 36, anyone?), with nice payload
processing facilities ready and waiting...

This one will be a "reusable" launch vehicle base. For whatever it's
worth...

Neil Gerace wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...8/s1719530.htm


Sorry if this has already been mentioned here.

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Woomera chosen as rocket launch site for space station

"Rockets will be launched from Woomera in outback South Australia to the
International Space Station (ISS), starting in 2008.

"NASA has selected two American companies to launch rockets from Woomera.
Rocket Plane Kistler and Space-X will conduct orbital flight tests as well
as commercial operations from a spaceport at Woomera, and carry cargo to the
ISS.

"It is believed Leighton Contractors will build the Woomera launch
facilities.

"Woomera was originally involved in testing of long-range missiles and
rockets during the Cold War."

I suspect this is for Rocket Plane Kistler only, since Kistler
originally planned to use Woomera. The SpaceX web site
shows its COTS launches going out of Kwajalein.

- Ed Kyle

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:27:14 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I'll be damned- Australia is back in the space race! David Sander is
going to flip over this.

....Isn't he dead? :-/

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It'll never happen. There would need to be some interest and
money (more importantly!) from the Australian government, and they
simply haven't got a clue.


I suspect this is for Rocket Plane Kistler only, since Kistler
originally planned to use Woomera. The SpaceX web site
shows its COTS launches going out of Kwajalein.

- Ed Kyle