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Spaceflight Enthusiast  
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 What should be next? Posted on: Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:55 pmHi all
Once Spaceshipone goes up again and claims the x-prize, what should be the next thing? How about a prize for the first privately finanzed microsatellite to go into orbit? I think that far more amature teams would be able to compeat for something like that. What do you think? Oeivind Hansen Oslo. Norway |
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Space Station Member  
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Posted on: Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:57 pm The first privately funded microsat went into orbit in 1961. It was called Oscar 1. Here's a history of the first amateur satellite program.
http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Ha ... asics.html -Jon, KB4UHK |
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Spaceflight Participant  
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Posted on: Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:21 pm Maybe an "X2-Prize" for something like a manned trans-Pacific sub-orbital hop.
Somewhat less demanding than going all the way to orbit, and it would demonstrate the technology for true suborbital passenger transport, as opposed to straight-up-and-down "barnstorming" trips like SpaceShipOne's... |
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Spaceflight Enthusiast
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Posted on: Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:53 pm bad_astra:
What I ment(but didn`t write) was: That the microsatellite would have to be placed into orbit by a privately finanzed/designed/manufactured rocket system. |
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Space Station Member
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Posted on: Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:08 pm I think that's about to happen fairly soon. SpaceX's first payload is going to be a government customer, but IIRC they have a private payload going up pretty soon. SpaceDev will be close at their heels with the Streaker rocket (which will use a first stage with a developmental heritage that goes back to the engine on SpaceShipOne, just to keep things topical). I'm not sure if Kistler counts as a privately developed LV since it uses old soviet engines, and has used NASA money towards its development.
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Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:44 pm
Posts: 227 Location: Alexander, North Carolina, Planet Earth, the Milky Way Galaxy
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Posted on: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:52 am bad_astra wrote: The first privately funded microsat went into orbit in 1961. It was called Oscar 1. Here's a history of the first amateur satellite program. http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Ha ... asics.html -Jon, KB4UHK Yes, the OSCAR satellites (Orbiting Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio) were great. I had the privilege of listening and even making a few radio contacts through them back in the 1070s. --Ralph WA4NUO _________________ --Ralph Roberts CEO, Creativity, Inc. author of THE HUNDRED ACRE SPACESHIP http://1vid.com |
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Space Station Commander  
Joined: Sat May 22, 2004 8:59 am
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Posted on: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:11 pm Quote: contacts through them back in the 1070s. Wow, Ralph ... that was quite some time ago ...  _________________ Per aspera ad astra |
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Posted on: Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:49 pm I was three years old at the time.
--Ralph _________________ --Ralph Roberts CEO, Creativity, Inc. author of THE HUNDRED ACRE SPACESHIP http://1vid.com |
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Space Walker  
Joined: Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:59 pm
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Posted on: Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:54 am author wrote: I was three years old at the time. --Ralph Whauu, that makes you like 937 years old... |
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Posted on: Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:35 pm only in experience
--Ralph _________________ --Ralph Roberts CEO, Creativity, Inc. author of THE HUNDRED ACRE SPACESHIP http://1vid.com |
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Space Walker
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Posted on: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:38 pm
1070's = 1970's? |
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Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:44 pm
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Posted on: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:48 pm Texan wrote: :shock: 1070's = 1970's? no, I rode with William the Conqueror back in 1066 during that little rumble at Hastings... but i wuz real young at the time.
--Ralph _________________ --Ralph Roberts CEO, Creativity, Inc. author of THE HUNDRED ACRE SPACESHIP http://1vid.com |
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