Re: >>> Apple i-NASA >>>

On 7 Apr, 16:11, charliexmur...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 7, 10:46 am, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
wrote:





On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:57:13 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
charliexmur...@xxxxxxxxx made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

On Apr 7, 6:18 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6 Apr, 13:17, charliexmur...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Apr 6, 6:47 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How does this dovetail with US law? Isn't there a law prohibiting
direct competion between state run and privately run industry. Ares
lives on a massive government subsidy. This is unfair.

  - Ian Parker

It is for a manned mission which is excluded from the Commercial Space
Act

What I have in mind is not specifically related to space. It deals
with commercial activity in general. Ares could well send up
communication satellites despite being intended for manned space
flight.

Again, It is the Commercial Space Act.  NASA can't launch comsats and
must use commercial launch vehicles.

Not to mention the fact that Ares will be insanely expensive, and
unable to compete with commercial GEO launchers, given its low flight
rate (and perhaps even at a high one).  And it will provide a very
rough ride for a comsat.

Once again, Ian displays his utter ignorance of the subject.

Also, Ares-I can't go to GTO.   The upperstage isn't set up for
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Isn't that also a handicap in going to the Moon? How pray do you land
on the Moon? You need either a restartable stage OR another rocket
either of which could put a comsat in GEO - in theory at any rate.

If Ares really does have positive feedback and wild oscillation, is it
any use for anything? I would have thought that getting a decent
control system with transfer functions that led to stability was a
well understood problem. Apparently not.


- Ian Parker
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