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Elon Musk's SpaceX Offers Low-Cost Rockets
HobbySpacer writes "The cover article of the latest issue of Aviation Week looks at SpaceX and how its Falcon line of rockets threatens to shake up the space launch industry. Founded by Elon Musk, who also started PayPal, SpaceX is developing the Falcon I (first flight this summer) and Falcon V (first flight in 2005) that will cost as little as 20-30% of what competitors like Orbital Sciences and Boeing charge for comparable vehicles."
Ive always wanted to rocket into space at an affordable price and parachute down.
I cant see any problems with this plan.
If I max out my credit I will be 3/5900ths of the way to my own launch...woo hoo! Yay for the people who need this stuff though.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther
Now the real question is: Where the hell are you going to go?
You can send two up and still probably get it done with the 50% failure rate.
I wonder if they will advertise in the same place I am advertising my low cost heart transplants that I perform on my new cheap 747-like airplane that I am also selling.
So how good is the guidance system on these things? Would it be capable of carrying a payload... oh say the size of a suitcase from somewhere in say... Asia, to the west coast of the United States and hit a target within a few hundred metres? If so I know some Arab gentlemen who would be interested in purchasing a few of these.
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Damn! That dense block of unbroken text just jumped out right in front of me. Thank goodness my browser has airbags.
Everyone else OK?
--- Ban humanity.
It makes me smell sweet and alluring.
--- Ban humanity.
it's going to be just like the Jetsons...
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That explains a lot.
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And all that for less than 100 million $. For that kind of money, NASA could probably produce a really nice paper study, but nothing that gets off the ground.
You could climb up on the paper...
"The SpaceX Falcon rocket project will specifically target Boeing..." BAD Idea Boeing is actually well armed.
Reminds me of an exchange where a reporter asks a drug company exec
'Why are pills are so expensive when they cost 5 cents apiece to produce?'
His answer:
'The first one cost 150 million to produce.'
They had to unscrew the access panels to look inside, right? I think that counts as circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms. Its DMCA time, baby!
Can i pay my satelite launch trhu PayPal?