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Author: | RickLewis [ Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:39 am ] |
Post subject: | SpaceX Falcon 9 |
Blew up a couple of minutes after launch yesterday, on its way to the ISS with a load of supplies. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33305083 How much of a setback is this for the private launch industry? |
Author: | Darth Kevin [ Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:37 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 |
RickLewis wrote: Blew up a couple of minutes after launch yesterday, on its way to the ISS with a load of supplies. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33305083 How much of a setback is this for the private launch industry? Sure it's a set-back but not fatal. It might be fatal if the private launch industry was competing against a real alternative launch system from a U.S. government agency, but right now it isn't. |
Author: | RickLewis [ Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:18 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 |
Well, there is competition from the Russians. I suppose they have had their own recent problems though. |
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