OT: Heaviest commercial satellite launch ever

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Spehro Pefhany

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12,063 lb into geosynchronous orbit from a floating equatorial launch
platform. American (Boeing), Russian (Energia), Ukranian and Norse
partners:

http://www.sea-launch.com/
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.htm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14160

Great technology (of course it will just deliver another few hundred
channels of crap, but still....)

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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On Thu, 06 May 2004 00:57:32 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

12,063 lb into geosynchronous orbit from a floating equatorial launch
platform. American (Boeing), Russian (Energia), Ukranian and Norse
partners:

http://www.sea-launch.com/
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.htm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14160

Great technology (of course it will just deliver another few hundred
channels of crap, but still....)
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It's nice to see (no pun intended) a "You want to do WHAT?" idea turn
out so well. I imagine there were a few raised eyebrows when it was
first pitched to management.

"You say you want to take a Norwegian oil drilling platform to the
equator, assemble Russian rockets in a cargo ship kind of thing, and
then launch U.S. communications satellites into orbit with Ukrainian
boosters? Riiiiight... We'll, ahhh, have to get back to you on that."

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
On Thu, 06 May 2004 02:58:49 GMT, the renowned Rich Webb
<bbew.ar@mapson.nozirev.ten> wrote:

On Thu, 06 May 2004 00:57:32 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

12,063 lb into geosynchronous orbit from a floating equatorial launch
platform. American (Boeing), Russian (Energia), Ukranian and Norse
partners:

http://www.sea-launch.com/
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.htm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14160

Great technology (of course it will just deliver another few hundred
channels of crap, but still....)

It's nice to see (no pun intended) a "You want to do WHAT?" idea turn
out so well. I imagine there were a few raised eyebrows when it was
first pitched to management.

"You say you want to take a Norwegian oil drilling platform to the
equator, assemble Russian rockets in a cargo ship kind of thing, and
then launch U.S. communications satellites into orbit with Ukrainian
boosters? Riiiiight... We'll, ahhh, have to get back to you on that."
Click to expand...
LOL!

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
 
It's nice to see (no pun intended) a "You want to do WHAT?" idea
turn out so well.
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Yes it is, and it's a shame that it so rarely happens.

I imagine there were a few raised eyebrows when it was
first pitched to management.
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My experience with corpo-rat mismanagement is that they wouldn't know a
good idea if it were written on stone tablets and handed to them by God
Almighty; but even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

--
It's not about anger -- it's about peace.
It's not about power -- it's about grace.
It's not about knowing your enemy -- it's about knowing yourself.
 
On a sunny day (Thu, 06 May 2004 10:37:15 -0700) it happened LioNiNoiL_a
t_NetscapE_D 0 T_NeT <accountname.here@netscape.net> wrote in
<fJumc.73128$Jy3.57729@fed1read03>:


It's not about anger -- it's about peace.
It's not about power -- it's about grace.
It's not about knowing your enemy -- it's about knowing yourself.
Agreed
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JP
 
On Thu, 06 May 2004 00:57:32 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

12,063 lb into geosynchronous orbit from a floating equatorial launch
platform. American (Boeing), Russian (Energia), Ukranian and Norse
partners:

http://www.sea-launch.com/
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.htm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14160

Great technology (of course it will just deliver another few hundred
channels of crap, but still....)

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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That's pretty good-sized. I designed a
spin-table/bolt-blower/launcher for a 4 ton unit back around 1987
(Sperry Aerospace). Used to scare the hell out of me... that sucker
spinning from a gantry in the lab... I used to stand behind a building
column while it was under test ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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