SpaceX's Falcon 1 Soars to Low Earth Orbit

Proving that the 4th time really is a charm, a private company called
SpaceX launched its new rocket, the Falcon 1, into low Earth orbit.
Falcon 1 is the first privately built and operated liquid fueled
launch vehicle to achieve orbit around the Earth.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...th.html?cat=15

On Sep 29, 10:38 am, "Mark R. Whittington"
wrote:
Proving that the 4th time really is a charm, a private company called
SpaceX launched its new rocket, the Falcon 1, into low Earth orbit.
Falcon 1 is the first privately built and operated liquid fueled
launch vehicle to achieve orbit around the Earth.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...s_falcon_1_soa...

Better late than never, even if it's untrustworthy enough that it's
only entrusted with bag of sand or perhaps water instead of viable
satellite payloads.

Too bad they couldn't have at least placed a block of raw ice into
LEO, so that along with a small core instrument and for the first time
ever we'd obtain actual objective science pertaining to what sort of
water molecule survival such ice might actually have, thereby giving
us such basic knowledge of space ice coexisting once in vacuum and
receiving a full spectrum dosage of 1 AU sunlight (not to ignore or
otherwise discount IR moonshine).

~ BG

364 pounds of ice would have been a whole lot better LEO science than
any solid of aluminum.

Why is such LEO ice forbidden?

~ BG


BradGuth wrote:
On Sep 29, 10:38 am, "Mark R. Whittington"
wrote:
Proving that the 4th time really is a charm, a private company called
SpaceX launched its new rocket, the Falcon 1, into low Earth orbit.
Falcon 1 is the first privately built and operated liquid fueled
launch vehicle to achieve orbit around the Earth.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...s_falcon_1_soa...

Better late than never, even if it's untrustworthy enough that it's
only entrusted with bag of sand or perhaps water instead of viable
satellite payloads.

Too bad they couldn't have at least placed a block of raw ice into
LEO, so that along with a small core instrument and for the first time
ever we'd obtain actual objective science pertaining to what sort of
water molecule survival such ice might actually have, thereby giving
us such basic knowledge of space ice coexisting once in vacuum and
receiving a full spectrum dosage of 1 AU sunlight (not to ignore or
otherwise discount IR moonshine).

~ BG