Remember Icarus’ fate maybe.
John
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Paul Mueller
Sent: zaterdag 10 februari 2018 21:28
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: irrational gushing enthusiasm (was Re: Future Exploration...)
Not the Second Coming, true, but a pretty respectable Reformation. The
established Church (governments, large aerospace contractors/consortia) no
longer controls the path to heaven. Now all space launch missions have
non-dinospace, much less-expensive options: suborbital (UP Aerospace),
micro-LEO (Rocketlab), LEO/GEO/interplanetary (SpaceX). And there's more to
come. Yes, it will take time.
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018, Craig Fink wrote:
...The only way to "create" bandwidth is to use
different paths. For example, with infinite funds one could
build a phased array satellite several kilometers wide in GEO.
Prices have just come down from infinite to finite,
Oh, nonsense. C'mon, guys, this is getting ridiculous -- sober up! Falcon
Heavy is not the messiah; this is not the Second Coming. No, not even for
comsats -- even they usually cost more than the rocket carrying them, although
there have been occasional exceptions.
The cost of multi-kilometer phased arrays in GEO was finite before, although
distinctly large. It is now *slightly* less large -- only slightly. An
improvement, yes, but they still won't happen next year.
I imagine this is where things are heading in GEO.
Eventually. Holding of breath not recommended.
Henry