Re: Getting Mega Projects Done

From: David Summers (david_at_ualmiles.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: 27 Nov 2004 20:12:31 -0800

Earl Colby Pottinger <earlcp@idirect.com> wrote in message news:<ZtydnVrNIOQ5YjXcRVn-uw@look.ca>...
> Also related is the ROI, for real long term investments (20-50) the space
> industies look as good or even better than most long term businesses, but for
> short term CATS simply sucks. Because of the lower pricing the returns are
> very low until businesses ramp up to take advantage of those lower costs. If
> you keep them high the businesses will not expand the markets.

This is sort of what I had thought when I started this thread - an
orbital launch system would be a hard sell. Personally, I think that
before a mega-system can be created to dramatically lower the cost of
orbital launches, RLVs will have to pave the way and prove that a
market exists.

I wonder how far away we are from the business side making sense.