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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: DoD launcher use
- Message-ID: <BzMwDx.KGw@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:08:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.221347.3359@iti.org> <1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec16.202219.2063@eng.umd.edu> <1gvlmnINN9c@mirror.digex.com> <72109@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <72109@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
- >>we should look to develope cheap sats to go with DC-1.
- >>
- > I thought we were already developing cheap sats, but these are to
- > go up with Pegasus, Taurus, etc.
-
- There's cheap and there's cheap. The satellites being developed for
- Pegasus etc. are *relatively* cheap because they're small... but they
- still (usually) cost millions each, and they're typically built to the
- same gold-plated zero-failures ten-year-life specs. Drop prices by
- two orders of magnitude (not out of the question for DC-1) and many
- things would have to change.
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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