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Boeing to Restart ICO Satellite Building	27 Aug 2003 08:06 GMT	4
Some good news for a change. See story at: "http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=3&u=/nm/20030825/ bs_nm/telecoms_ico_boeing_dc" Boeing to Restart ICO Satellite Building (Reuters via Yahoo)
Re: What happens to the engines now? was Re: Kistler Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy	26 Aug 2003 17:42 GMT	3
Sander Vesik <sander@haldjas.folklore.ee> wrote: > Reed Snellenberger <rsnellenberger@-omitthis-houston.rr.com> wrote: >> The announcement was for a Chap 11 bankruptcy, so maybe there's a slim >> chance that they'll survive and start flying... but what if they don't?
Kourou Soyuz Needs Only 98 Workers	26 Aug 2003 03:37 GMT	7
According to the ITAR-TASS story at, "http://www.itar-tass.com/english/allnews/394859.html" only 98 Russian workers will be needed to process and launch each Soyuz from Kourou (beginning in 2006) - and only 15 will be
Mars vs Belt.	25 Aug 2003 18:10 GMT	1
geddiea95@aol.com (G EddieA95) : > > half the amout of solar energy that Mars receives, plus you > >can terraform Mars. >
X-37 Question	25 Aug 2003 00:28 GMT	3
Why is the X-37 almost 60% fuel? That should give it over 2 km/sec velocity change. All it should need is enough fuel to be able to stabilize its orbit and do a deorbit burn
Colonel K?	24 Aug 2003 23:16 GMT	2
"Colonel K" <whydoyou@wanttoknow.com> : > "Earl Colby Pottinger" <earlcp@idirect.com> wrote in message > news:vkf3bj8h0vmid3@corp.supernews.com... > > And also welcome to the UseNet, where just claiming that you are an
Re: Boeing pulls Delta IV from commercial launch market	24 Aug 2003 05:18 GMT	1
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> wrote: > It's been clear for a while that Boeing would prefer to forget (and would > very much prefer that customers forget) that Delta III ever existed, > given its rather unsatisfactory early record.
Delta IV Out as Potential X-37 Launcher?	24 Aug 2003 04:16 GMT	5
Story in Huntsville, AL newspaper discusses possible affect of Boeing launch santions on X-37 program: "http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xs l?/base/news/1060710415219382.xml" Article says that Marshall Space Flight Center planned for a
Re: Delta IV vs. Atlas V	24 Aug 2003 03:43 GMT	2
Brian Thorn <bthorn64@cox.net> wrote: > On 2 Aug 2003 17:28:21 -0700, edkyle99@hotmail.com (ed kyle) wrote: >>One Heavy mission should be cargo-equivalent to one STS flight, >>not counting the mass of the needed orbital maneuvering stage.
Real Delta IV Cost?	24 Aug 2003 03:00 GMT	5
According to it's press release, Boeing's recent $835 million Delta IV write-off covered 24 contracted launches, meaning (as I understand it) that the company was loosing an average of $34.8 million on each launch. The original EELV contract for
Good Space Books	23 Aug 2003 20:18 GMT	10
I wrote up something about the books I have at: http://spacetethers.com/vincebooks/ My favorite for tech and vision of the future are: http://spacetethers.com/vincebooks/techvision.jpg
Suborbital MiG for the many...	23 Aug 2003 19:11 GMT	3
Passenger module for ballistic MiG-31: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/07/22/042.html http://www.e-tourmagazine.com/news/2.php?tipo=2022&pais=Alemania http://www.dailyrecord.co ...
Very heavy lift vehicle prospects?	22 Aug 2003 16:11 GMT	7
Are there any serious proposals in work now for a very-heavy-lift (Saturn class) booster? Potential uses might include the space-based laser, getting future nuclear-powered missions off Earth, tourist hotels built as one units, etc. Is there enough of a market that anyone is ...
Is this newsgroup still active?	22 Aug 2003 12:03 GMT	1
Haven't seen a post in the past few days. If is my ISP problem, can some one send email if the group is still active?
Cost of launch and laws of physics	22 Aug 2003 06:47 GMT	41
A couple of months ago Wired Magazine quoted John Pike as saying, "It costs $10,000 a pound to get into space, and the reason isn't the government - it's physics." A lot of people here devoted many postings to ridiculing this comment. Some were not content to refute the statement