Sunday, December 12, 2004
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Some satellite news from DailyWireless:
The first flight of Boeing's new heavy-lift rocket was scrubbed to allow pad engineers time to work through a computer glitch. Boeing's Delta 4 Heavy rocket, the largest of its Delta 4 family, was reset to launch Sunday at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
With its three-engine common booster core, the Delta 4 Heavy rocket is capable of carrying payloads up to 28,124 pounds (12,757 kilograms) into orbit. The DemoSat and two Nanosat-2 satellites together weigh about 13,500 pounds (6,123 kilograms).
But nobody cares -- "There is no demand for a big launcher right now or in the next five years," said Phil McAlister, an industry analyst.
Elon Musk to save the day! If he can do to the space industry what PayPal did (is doing?) to banking... touche.
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