Word: nasa
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...satellites remain fixed over one spot on the ground, permanently in line of sight of antennas. The U.S. shuttle can reach a maximum altitude of only 690 miles, and additional boosters will be needed to loft payloads higher. Europeans were quick to make much of la différence. NASA, en garde...
...brash entrepreneur tries to break NASA's monopoly...
Until now, NASA has had a virtual monopoly on space shots for private industry. But the space agency charges approximately $28 million to put satellites into the geosynchronous, or stationary, orbit used for telecommunications signals. Moreover, NASA rockets are just about booked solid for the next five years. The first 68 flights of the space shuttle, which is also designed to launch satellites, have been reserved as well...
Hudson plans to undercut NASA and open up the market by charging a maximum of $5 million to launch a low-orbit satellite that could be used to search for oil, gas or mineral deposits. For stationary communications orbits 22,300 miles up, Space Services Inc. will charge an estimated $15 million...
...first of the company's Percheron rockets, named after a French draft horse, is being built in a Sunnyvale, Calif., plant by 17 engineers, some of them former employees of NASA. This week the device will be loaded aboard a flatbed truck and hauled to a launch pad at Matagorda Island, about 50 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, a site that NASA once considered for launches. After testing the prototype, the company hopes to conduct its first orbital flight next year...