Re: [amsat-bb] Why sat launches are a b****

[Emily Clarke <w0eec@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:03 PM 2/26/2004 -0700, Scott Townley wrote:
>Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will be paid 50 percent more to send 
>U.S. military satellites into space to compensate for collapse of 
>commercial demand that threatens their launch businesses, an Air Force 
>official said Wednesday.  Payments will increase to as much as $135M per 
>launch from $91M.

This makes me sick. There is demand - they just don't want to do small 
payloads.

I hope Burt Rutan is laughing his buns off over this.  Or maybe we can 
convince Canada and India to jointly build a commercial launch site at 57 
deg N in Northern BC and see how the US and Russia deal with that.  It's 
not money.  Everyone knows - it's location, location, location.  And Boeing 
and Lockheed don't have a monopoly on that.

JMO - and this miffs me.

Emily



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