[FPSPACE] SpaceX launch sucessful from Kwajalein

[Sven Grahn]

Keith,

This is a wonderful event in our somewhat geriatric business.

BTW, did you guys notice the attitude drift of the vehicle directly after 
first stage shutdown? As soon as the second stage kicked on the attitude 
error was quickly corrected. But those high rotation rates look a bit scary.

ven
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Gottschalk" <kgottschalk at uwc.ac.za>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: [FPSPACE] SpaceX launch sucessful from Kwajalein


> Congratulations to the South African-born Elon Musk!
>
> This also means that:
>
> 1. Elon Musk is more successful than the entire Republic of Iran; at
> least in terms of chronology. They might succeed by their 4th satellite
> attempt, though North Korea seems to have given up before reaching
> that.
>
> 2. Any other private company is only likely to succeed if it has
> capital reserves to cover at least building & launching four rockets.
> Which Roton & the others do not. When Musk scales up to nine-engined
> rockets (his website seems now to skip his earlier plan for a 5 engined
> one), it is likely that again he will suffer a failure before success.
>
> Keith
>


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