Posted on 02/04/2008 7:01:18 PM PST by KevinDavis
WASHINGTON -- Bigelow Aerospace officials said Feb. 1 they are making progress in their negotiations with United Launch Alliance for six initial launches for their planned commercial space station, starting around 2011.
Subsequently the company hopes to conduct as many as a dozen launches per year as the new facility becomes fully operational.
Bigelow Aerospace and Denver-based United Launch Alliance (ULA) have been working together for over a year studying what it would take to human-rate the Atlas 5 rocket. Industry sources said Bigelow Aerospace is ready to place an order that includes six launches starting in 2011 to begin assembly and early operation of the new station.
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At upwards of $100 million per launch NOT including a manned capsule, this is still way out of financial reach.
the company hopes to conduct as many as a dozen launches per year as the new facility becomes fully operational.That's more like it...
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