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By: rorschach
Date: 3/21/99 8:19:30 PM
# Replies: 12
Yet another privately funded group is about to blast into space... but they are the BIG BOYS.....not some tinkerers working out of a hanger in the desert but the people who KNOW how to run a space program.... Boeing, in parters with NRG Ergomash (russian aerospace company, builds the worlds biggest and most powerful liquid fuelled rocket engines)which will supply a liquid fuelled second stage, and a Ukrainian aerospace company which will supply russian surplus Zenit solid fuelled intermediate range missiles, and Kaevarner Shipbuilding, are about to launch thier first attempt at the low earth orbit launching service. Kaevarner has taken an old drilling ship with it's sophisticated bow and stern thruster systems and ballast shifting systems to ensure a stable deck, and converted it into a floating launch vessel. They have built a new companion ship that will be mission control for the flight. Boeing will be doing the operations and integration (like they do for the shuttle under the guise of United Space Alliance (you see they bought most of thier partners in this joint venture)). Another advantage is that they plan on launching from the open pacific on or near the equator so they get a bunch of free angular velocity right off the bat so that should boost thier payload capacity over those who launch from say, the continental US.... Next saturday, March 27th...... coming to a PCS cellular telephone near you.... Iridium.... satellite telephones by Motorola.... Satellite launch systems by SeaLaunch.....
Response #1
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 3/22/99 4:08:19 PM
why do the words "floating launch vessel" sound somehow wrong?
(and is this all just to put another sattellite in space???)
Response #2
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/22/99 9:53:56 PM
"What you sellin' with that Cosmic Debris?"
Response #3
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/23/99 12:23:02 AM
Oh great.. they better not go phuckin' around with the El Nino out there.
Response #4
By: sooz
Date: 3/24/99 4:23:45 PM
I think the MIBs got him, Fang.
Response #5
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/1/99 2:36:39 AM
By the way...
Cassini falls from the sky in June. Be sure and get your lead-lined overcoat NOW, before prices skyrocket...
Response #6
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 4/2/99 12:48:04 AM
(Flashback to people selling "pieces of Sky Lab".)
Response #7
By: Da Sissop
Date: 4/2/99 9:38:24 AM
It's a little-known fact that it was actually a failed launch of a plutonium powered space probe that killed the dinosaurs.
Response #8
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 4/3/99 6:39:04 AM
Damn CIA timetravel experiements!! When will they ever learn!?
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #9
By: rorschach
Date: 4/3/99 4:09:24 PM
all bullshit aside.... the launch went perfectly and the test payload was injected into geosynchronus transfer orbit succsessfully..... so all those roumors about russian ICBM's being junk and blowing up on liftoff are so much hooey....... check out boeing space systems' web site for RealVideo of the launch..... http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/sealaunch/rockets.html
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/4/99 7:01:36 PM
Streaming video from Hangar 18...
:-)
Response #11
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 4/5/99 4:28:02 PM
spurious logic, my friend ror, but i'm glad to hear it went well.
Response #12
By: rorschach
Date: 4/21/99 9:38:09 PM
spurious logic? sorry even the -5 didn't help here....