Getting Into The Private Space Race

powerbarr writes "This article has an excellent description of the issues of getting into the rocket industry without government funding and focuses on one startup that is doing it. Sea Launch is a subsidiary of American, Russian, Ukrainian, and Norwegian companies that has cheaper, more accurate, and more reliable launch system that is trying to compete with all the government sponsored systems that are more expensive and less reliable."

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uh... one launch?

[kevin lyda]

they've made one launch so far. that's hardly enough data points to compare them to nasa, esa or the russian space program.