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To: RightWhale; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; Centurion2000; ..
Hopefully the Atlas V & Delta IV can provide better reliability.
7 posted on 10/04/2002 3:32:59 PM PDT by Brett66
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To: Brett66
The commercial launch industry is depressed and has been so for a couple of years. Eventually the commsats will have to be replaced one at a time or system by system, but that wouldn't be anytime soon.

Rockets by their nature have the possibility of catastrophic failure. It will always be so and it is factored into the cost.

It would be great to have an order of magnitude increase in performance that drives the cost down by an order of magnitude. Do this twice and everybody will have a space winnebago in the driveway for weekends on the moon. Until then it's incremental improvements such as businesses are familiar with -- gradual improvement.

8 posted on 10/04/2002 3:57:34 PM PDT by RightWhale
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