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Aquarius Launch Vehicle

No.60780 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
From wikipedia: "

Space Systems/Loral's Aquarius Launch Vehicle is a low-cost launch vehicle designed to carry small, inexpensive payoads into LEO. The vehicle will be primarily intended to launch into orbit bulk products, like water, fuel, and other consumables, that are inexpensive to replace in the event of a launch failure. The target launch cost is $1 million. As currently designed, Aquarius will be a single-stage vehicle 43 meters (141 feet) high and 4 meters (13.1 feet) in diameter and powered by a single engine using liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellants. The vehicle is floated in the ocean prior to launch to minimize launch infrastructure and will be able to place a 1,000-kilogram (2,200-pound) payload into a 200-kilometer (125-mile), 52-degree orbit. The payload, located in the base of the vehicle, will be extracted by an orbiting space tug for transfer to its ultimate destination, after which the vehicle will de-orbit and be destroyed"

I think it's a long time coming. Imagine spending millions to launch a payload only worth a few thousand dollars. Launch the expensive stuff on a more reliable launch system and the cheap stuff on the cheap launch system.

Video about Aquarius

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHawjnn4Ak
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Mko5sC5yM

No.60468 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
Question /n/:

Are Airships money holes? Would it be possible to make these financially viable as a transportation/sightseeing enterprise? Forgive if this is a stupid/spammed question, not an /n/ regular, was just having this discussion with a friend about the possibility of a pan-American zepplin company or something.
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No.60721 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
hey /b/ I have a chance of buying a 1995 BMW 318i convertible. dark green with black top. It's clean, drives well, and it's $3000. is this win?
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No.60670 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
FUCK YEAH new commuter engine that looks nothing like an F59PHI - I figured it was an old GP40 or something that just happened to have new paint, turns out these are being phased in right now. Not sure why they waited until their F3s were 60 years old to think about replacing them though.

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The New Haven attempted just about everything in the book to preserve its eroding passenger revenues. One of its schemes was to run lightweight trains such as the "Roger Williams," basically an RDC (Rail Diesel Car) with a cab unit front end. I got this photo of the "Roger Williams," in drab PC paint, at New Haven in 1971.