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  • #16
    Originally posted by Patroklos
    This is great. I usually have a far more conservative estimate on the time it will take to reach most space related goals, but this sort of enterprise is a big step.
    I agree. From concept to launch it took them about 3.5 years, which is an extremely short period of time as these things go. The time-limiting factor was the engines.

    They only have 160 employees and would max out at only 400 - 500 people if they decide to build Saturn V mark II with manned capsules. It's much easier to get things done quickly with a small team that knows what it's doing. But I wonder whether they can keep up this pace.
    Last edited by DanS; November 23, 2005, 12:03.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #17
      Re: Re: LA rocket company maiden launch Friday

      Originally posted by MrFun
      A lot of companies in USA started out first by making their products in the USA before moving part or all of production overseas.
      These are highly specialized products. At this time, I think it would be impossible to manufacture the rockets in the fashion that they are manufactured in any country other than the USA.
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #18
        After reading one of the posts I thought it was a government facility. I guess not.
        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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        • #19
          Re: LA rocket company maiden launch Friday

          Originally posted by DanS
          From an American patriot's perspective, ...
          You are aware that the company are founded and owned by Elon Musk from South Africa ?
          With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

          Steven Weinberg

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          • #20
            Re: Re: Re: LA rocket company maiden launch Friday

            Originally posted by DanS


            These are highly specialized products. At this time, I think it would be impossible to manufacture the rockets in the fashion that they are manufactured in any country other than the USA.
            With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

            Steven Weinberg

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            • #21
              Wow. They reinvented the V2. Without stabilisers
              Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
              And notifying the next of kin
              Once again...

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              • #22
                The V2 could launch stuff into LEO? ****, man, the Nazis owned.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                  The V2 could launch stuff into LEO? ****, man, the Nazis owned.
                  They probably could if they didn't have other "priorities" at the time...
                  Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                  And notifying the next of kin
                  Once again...

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                  • #24
                    Hmm, first launch....so there is still time for one of their rockets to blow up with the cargo inside?

                    I wonder what kind of insurance they carry?
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                    • #25
                      Impressive. IIRC Suborbital flight only requires 3000 mph, and fuel requirements increase exponentially when you go to orbital speeds, that's why Spaceship 1 looked more like a jet than a rocket. I hope there is enough safety precautions -- in Brazil 21 died because of a rocket exploding.

                      400 - 500 people for a Saturn Mark II?????? Sounds like they're cutting too many corners.

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                      • #26
                        Well unlike in the days of NASA when a lot of stuff had to be R&D's, tested, and custom-made, now they can contract out lots of the stuff and focus on design and assembly.
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                        • #27
                          LA's aerospace industry pwnz all.
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                          • #28
                            Re: Re: LA rocket company maiden launch Friday

                            Originally posted by BlackCat
                            You are aware that the company are founded and owned by Elon Musk from South Africa ?
                            Sure. So ask yourself why he isn't doing this in South Africa, but rather Los Angeles (and Texas).
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #29
                              Anyway, they scrubbed the launch yesterday and today. Maybe they'll light it off tomorrow.
                              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Hueij
                                Wow. They reinvented the V2. Without stabilisers
                                They are nothing alike.
                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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