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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 :-) -- -Andrew Gray |
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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. -- MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. | |
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