[AR] Re: Black Arrow (was Re: Hypothetical Lox cooling)
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, I wrote:
...the decision to build it hadn't been informed by
any real thought about why it was needed and what role it would play.
Britain had hardly any *payloads* for it to carry...
Canada made somewhat the same mistake, on a smaller scale, around that
time. The "Chapman Report" of 1967, an officially-supported attempt to
establish Canada's space priorities, actually recommended that Canada
acquire the capability to launch its own small scientific satellites.
What it *didn't* do was recommend a program of small scientific
satellites! There had already been several, and they may have thought
continuation of that was a done deal; big mistake. In fact there were
none for the next several decades, and with no small satellites to launch,
there was obviously no need for a smallsat launch capability...
Henry
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