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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.164247.20711@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:42:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com> <BzqMxr.MuH@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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- In article <BzqMxr.MuH@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com> steveha@microsoft.com (Steve Hastings) writes:
- >>What are the Pegasus folks up to right now?
- >
- >The third launch is slated for January. If that works out okay, they hope
- >to ramp things up very quickly in 1993. There's a backlog of payloads
- >waiting for the second-launch problems to be solved.
- >
- >(Yes, problems plural: apparently they had both a first/second-stage
- >separation problem, and a fairing-separation problem.) (Yet more proof
- >that God did not mean us to build rockets that shed parts on the way up. :-))
-
- And to think, it was only last year that Pegasus was the net's darling
- that was going to bring the cost of space travel down to nil. These
- bandwagons are not only crowded, they also seem to be short lived. It's
- funny that the flaws only show up when something actually flies.
-
- Gary
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