TheOwl opened this issue on Jul 19, 2009 · 9 posts
TheOwl posted Sun, 19 July 2009 at 10:19 AM
Attached Link: https://spacex.com/index.php
*Falcon 1, carrying the RazakSAT satellite, lifted off on July 13, 2009 at 8:35 p.m. (PDT) / (July 14 2009, at 03:35 UTC). Liftoff occurred from the SpaceX launch site on Omelek Island at the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) in the Central Pacific, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. After the second burn of the second stage engine, Falcon 1 released the RazakSAT Earth Observation satellite into the intended near-equatorial orbit of 685 km, 9 degrees inclination.*Passion is anger and love combined. So if it looks
angry, give it some love!
geep posted Sun, 19 July 2009 at 11:34 AM
Impressive !!!
Thanks 4 the link. 
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pakled posted Sun, 19 July 2009 at 6:49 PM
Hot DANG! I used to LIVE on Kwaj! (back in the 60s). Glad to see the home town make good. They used to test antimissles out there.
It's only 6 degrees from the equator, so they get a little more 'oomph' out of the launch, too.
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
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TheOwl posted Sun, 19 July 2009 at 7:40 PM
Why is it costs less when a system is privatized?
Like in world war 2, weapons are manufactured by the government but now there are weapons companies doing it for the government.
Passion is anger and love combined. So if it looks
angry, give it some love!
nyguy posted Mon, 20 July 2009 at 9:10 AM
Quote - Why is it costs less when a system is privatized?
Like in world war 2, weapons are manufactured by the government but now there are weapons companies doing it for the government.
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Fazzel posted Mon, 20 July 2009 at 10:51 AM
Quote - > Quote - Why is it costs less when a system is privatized?
Like in world war 2, weapons are manufactured by the government but now there are weapons companies doing it for the government.
- Cause the government subcontracts everything
- Privatized companies are out to make money - faster+cheaper+better=profit
I do some work for NASA and at one time their philosophy was also faster+cheaper+better.
Turned out faster+cheaper+better=failure. It got to be the joke faster+cheaper+better,
pick two out of three. Now the main emphasis is on reliability, and most recent launches,
such as the Phoenix mission to Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
have performed flawlessly.
FVerbaas posted Wed, 02 August 2023 at 6:03 AM Forum Coordinator
TheOwl posted at 7:40 PM Sun, 19 July 2009 - #3483512
In ww2 times weapons were also made by private companies, nothing new there.Why is it costs less when a system is privatized?
Like in world war 2, weapons are manufactured by the government but now there are weapons companies doing it for the government.
Private companies can be more 'efficient' because they parasite on community investments. SpaceX would be nothing if they could not drain NASA from promising staff educated, trained and experienced there on taxpayers' money.
hborre posted Wed, 02 August 2023 at 8:14 AM
@ FVerbaas: it must be a slow day. This thread is 14 years old!
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