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2015-07-05 Science & Technology

The End of Sanctuary in Space - Why America is considering getting more aggressive in orbit

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Let's see:

Atlas need to be re-engined or replaced by 2018 with a non-Russian engine.

Delta is being discontinued

Falcon 9 just blew up

Antares blew up and is being re-engined with a Russian engine.

ULA want's to make Vulcan using Bezo's natural gas B-4 engine (in development) but parent companies don't appear to want ULA to do so.

Orbital ATK want's to re-engine the Atlas with their engine that is not as good as the Russian one even though ULA and LockMart own the rocket's IP. They, are also making noises about big solids they could supply.

The big new SLS (better known as the Senate Launch System) cost almost $1B/rocket

Bezo's might be able to upgrade his sub orbital to a full launcher but nobody seems to want to give him and Amazon that opening.

NRO keeps making bigger and bigger sats that are more tempting targets instead of smaller and more.

The mil sat folks don't seem to understand how well distribute small works for the internet and could work for their sats - scatter gather etc...

The Air Force robot craft works great but launches on Atlas which is going away.

Posted by 3dc 2015-07-05 03:00|| 2015-07-05 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 On the small side there are interesting off beat adventures. I saw an L3 Comm logo on one of the power points for an EM-Drive engine so maybe it is real and not BS?
document with the logo
a full blown dream here

Posted by 3dc 2015-07-05 03:10|| 2015-07-05 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatever happened to the outreach to Islam?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-05 04:33|| 2015-07-05 04:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Whatever happened to the outreach to Islam?

You saw the rockets blow up, didn't you?

Posted by Steve White 2015-07-05 11:09|| 2015-07-05 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Moderator Snark 'O The Day

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-05 12:05|| 2015-07-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Why are they discontinuing Delta? It doesn't send money to Russia to help conquer Ukraine with?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-07-05 12:07|| 2015-07-05 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Deep Space 1 is real.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-07-05 12:08|| 2015-07-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, NASA has larger issues to address, like MMGW.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-07-05 13:00|| 2015-07-05 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9 ...and diversity.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-07-05 16:05|| 2015-07-05 16:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Skidmark - that one isn't an ion engine. It's pure RF - so no propellant.

Posted by 3dc 2015-07-05 18:56|| 2015-07-05 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Folks are scrambling to figure out the physics to possibly explain it or not.
EM-Drive Wiki

Posted by 3dc 2015-07-05 18:58|| 2015-07-05 18:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Whaddaya mean "considering"???

WE HAVEN'T SEEN NASA-DARPA'S ANDOR USDOD'S NEW TOYS TESTING IN, OVER, + AROUND GUAM-WESTPAC, HAVE WE???

Given RUSSIAN tourists + entrepeneurs new interest in visiting +investing in Guam + Marianas, etal. WOULD'NT BE SURPRISED IFF RUSSIA TESTS HER SPACE TOYS IN THESE PARTS AS WELL.

PERSONALLY, I BLAME YOUNG VLAD + DIMITRI, THE 1970'S, + IPAN BEACH, TALOFOFO.

Sniff, sniff, is there no love in Guam for Anti-Vladvedev ZHIRINOVSKY ... ...

Oh, wait ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-07-05 20:02|| 2015-07-05 20:02|| Front Page Top

#13 See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [The Diplomat] NO MORE EASY VICTORIES US MILITARY. AMEIRCA'S ENEMIES HAVE GONE TO SCHOOL [done their homework] AND ARE DEVELOPING COUNTER-STRATEGIES TO CHALLENGE ITS [USA's] MILITAY SUPREMACY | THE END OF THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR.

DeputySecDef Robert Work in speech to RAND CORP.

DEPSECDEF ROBERT WORK = argued that SPACE is now very much new + legit "dimension of war" + "competition" between the US + Russia-China.

* CHINA DAILY, TOPIX > CHINA CONCERNED OVER [2015]US MILITARY STRATEGY REPORT.

ARTIC > Among other, REPORT = denotes that CHINA [still?] WANTS THE US OUT OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC.

VERSUS

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Global Times] CAN THE US, CHINA SHARE POWER IN ASIA.

The answer could "make-or-break" childhood warnings from my Ancestors = 1960-1970's Guam Taotamonas as per the retreating USA sinking Guam + other Pacific Isles as part of strategic denial [so-called "A2/AD"] to China or even Nuclear Islam, but espec agz China.

[WORLD NEWS BLOG = ALMOST-GUAM'S-CAMEL-ROCK SCS PIC here].

WHEN OWG GLOBALIST-DESIRED "CO-SUPERPOWER" PARITY + "HARMONY/STABILITY", ETC. ISN'T ANYMORE.

INSTEAD OF "WORLD PEACE" + EFFECTIVE CREDIBLE OWG-NWO, THE UNILATERALLY OR SELF-RETREATING USA BECAME THE "SICK MAN" OF THE WEST???

* TOPIX > CHINESE GENERALS URGE PLA TO EXPAND NAVY AS WAR RISKS RISE.

* RELATED SAME > SOUTH CHINA SEA IS NOW A "CORE INTEREST" OF BEIJING'S, AND THATS A PROBLEM FOR ITS NEIGHBORS.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIAN OCEAN CANNOT BE THE BACKYARD OF INDIA: CHINA - PTI, INDIAN EXPRESS.

Lest there be risk of Sino-Indian, Other Inter-Regional Nations' MILITARY CLASHES.

* WORLD NEWS > [Yahoo News] NO INTENTION TO SURROUND INDIA WID "STRING OF PEARLS" BASES: CHINA.

Prolly because iff China's strategy is successful, most or all of China's MilBases in the IOR will be LAND/COASTAL-BASED [vee Pro-China Allies = NAM], whereas most or all of any "Pearls" will be in East Asia-WESTPAC + SE Asia.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-07-05 23:08|| 2015-07-05 23:08|| Front Page Top

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