Re: Rocket design up in air, says Marshall chief
From: Ed Kyle (edkyle99_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/21/05
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Date: 21 Feb 2005 13:32:38 -0800
John Schilling wrote:
>
> Ariane V is not the right launcher for this decade, and it's going to
> take some less than subtle political pressure on the market to keep
> it alive. Ariane IV, single-manifesting the big birds and doubling
> up the commodity mid-sized satellites, would be a nice thing for
> Arianespace to have it its catalog right about now. Oops.
>
I agree that Arianespace may have retired
Ariane 4 too soon, but Ariane 5 might turn
out to be more successful than common wisdom
currently allows one to expect. Ariane 5 has
a 35-payload backlog right now - more than any
other single launch vehicle in the world.
- Ed Kyle
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