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Boeing and Lockmart are in mourning
http://www.space.com/15809-spacex-pr...ch-commercial-
spaceflight.html SpaceX has succeeded in orbiting Dragon and will most likely succeed in docking with ISS. If that happens customer will line up on droves, NASA among them. My guess is that the corrupt U.S. Senators will now be ordered to order NASA to purchase the CST-100, which will cost billions to develop if Boeing gets its way. Mark my words! |
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On 23/05/2012 1:21 AM, Anonymous wrote:
http://www.space.com/15809-spacex-pr...ch-commercial- spaceflight.html SpaceX has succeeded in orbiting Dragon and will most likely succeed in docking with ISS. If that happens customer will line up on droves, NASA among them. My guess is that the corrupt U.S. Senators will now be ordered to order NASA to purchase the CST-100, which will cost billions to develop if Boeing gets its way. Mark my words! **** off troll. You are a coward for using a remailer instead of identifying yourself. You are scum. |
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On May 22, 11:21*am, Anonymous wrote:
http://www.space.com/15809-spacex-pr...ch-commercial- spaceflight.html SpaceX has succeeded in orbiting Dragon and will most likely succeed in docking with ISS. If that happens customer will line up on droves, NASA among them. My guess is that the corrupt U.S. Senators will now be ordered to order NASA to purchase the CST-100, which will cost billions to develop if Boeing gets its way. Mark my words! I'm not sanguine about large numbers of engines such as on the Falcon 9 on a rocket intended to make space flight routine. As I have discussed before, there is nothing especially innovative about the SpaceX designs. The engines they're using are of no better efficiency than the ones used on the original Atlas from the 60's. The lightweight stages come from techniques known from the 70's. SpaceX has said they don't want to patent their designs because that would give for example the Chinese greater ease in copying them. However, I wonder if the real reason is that they are just using techniques already known for decades. What is innovative is that they used good business practice in privately developing their vehicles which led them to have reduced development costs by up to 90%(!) In the space industry, that is innovative. But of course in the business world there is nothing innovative about that either. So any of the large aerospace companies in the world could duplicate the SpaceX low development costs except they would be better off just using the much better efficiency (Russian) engines now existing, resulting in needing fewer engines plus they wouldn't have the development costs of building entirely new engines. In other words, any of the world's aerospace companies could duplicate the SpaceX launch vehicles but at even *lower* launch prices by following good business practices you would normally use for a *privately financed* venture. Bob Clark |
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In sci.space.policy message -
september.org, Tue, 22 May 2012 11:33:59, Jeff Findley posted: Failure to dock with ISS would necessitate fixing the problems and re- flying the mission. That wouldn't be disastrous, but it would cost time and money and give Orbital Sciences time to catch up. OSC Antares is a dead end, with its second-hand engines in finite supply and much of the first stage being non-indigenous. It's not a good long- term pork supplier to the WFF area. -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. Turnpike v6.05 MIME. Web http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQqish topics, acronyms and links; Astro stuff via astron-1.htm, gravity0.htm ; quotings.htm, pascal.htm, etc. No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News. |
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