rwatson
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Postponed - thanks for the Link Leo
I am watching a documentary on the old space shuttle program, how they recover and refurbish the boosters that dropped off 120 seconds after launch. It looks like a whole industry of its own.
I was reading last week, that if you wanted to launch a satellite from the shuttle, you had to design the ejection system to suit the shuttles standard electronic and hydraulic equipment, to shunt it out of the bay, into space.
Costs to develop, test and deploy was around $3 million - just to 'chuck it off the bus'
No wonder we are just playing around on the beach with toy boats for fun these days :-(
I am watching a documentary on the old space shuttle program, how they recover and refurbish the boosters that dropped off 120 seconds after launch. It looks like a whole industry of its own.
I was reading last week, that if you wanted to launch a satellite from the shuttle, you had to design the ejection system to suit the shuttles standard electronic and hydraulic equipment, to shunt it out of the bay, into space.
Costs to develop, test and deploy was around $3 million - just to 'chuck it off the bus'
No wonder we are just playing around on the beach with toy boats for fun these days :-(
