http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zzq.html
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
will unveil its Falcon orbital launch vehicle in
Washington, DC tomorrow Thursday, December 4th.
SpaceX expects to launch the Falcon in early 2004
from
the SpaceX launch complex at
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:30, Adrian Tymes wrote:
Don't they have to get FAA approval first, especially
since they have a commercial payload? And doesn't
that
require lots more testing than they've done?
It's a DoD payload. I imagine that makes life much easier from a
regulatory POV.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Adrian Tymes wrote:
Don't they have to get FAA approval first, especially
since they have a commercial payload?
It's not a commercial payload, it's a military payload. That does
simplify matters.
And doesn't that
require lots more testing than they've done?
No, there's
--- Henry Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's an expendable rocket,
Actually, from the article...
The first rocket with substantial reusability
developed since the Space Shuttle first flew more
than two decades ago. Once the Shuttle retires, the
Falcon will become the world's only
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Adrian Tymes wrote:
It's an expendable rocket,
Actually, from the article...
The first stage theoretically is partly reusable. My information (which,
beware, is somewhat old) is that this is more a PR gimmick than a practical
reality.
