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	<title>Comments on: Video: Whitehorn assesses the competition</title>
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		<title>By: Kristian von Bengtson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristian von Bengtson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note that the suborbital system by Copenhagen Suborbitals is not for tourists, as a start. Its a private rocket system...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please note that the suborbital system by Copenhagen Suborbitals is not for tourists, as a start. Its a private rocket system&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Taoist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taoist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting video, but I think he&#039;s downplaying Armadillo, as well as SpaceX, and overplaying the capabilities of Scaled Composites. While the particular example of Armadillo that he uses certainly doesn&#039;t seem capable of much beyond a unique tourist experience, the key feature of Armadillo&#039;s engines is that they are modular, and so can be linked together to achieve any desired power. In addition, Armadillo&#039;s engines exhibit control that completely surpasses the capabilities of any previous rockets.

SpaceX is a company he leaves completely unmentioned, and yet they&#039;ve already succeeded in orbital capabilities. While they haven&#039;t yet developed a tourist (or even passenger!) vehicle, they&#039;re much more focused on succeeding as a company heading to space. Tourism can happen when they know they&#039;re a viable company.

As for the capabilities of SpaceX, they&#039;re still going to be confined to sub-orbital. While their rocket design may be something that can be enlarged at a future point to an orbital vehicle of some sort, the current sub-orbital capabilities would seem to limit their industry to tourism - and both Armadillo and SpaceX would seem to have designs that can go orbital with less development.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting video, but I think he&#8217;s downplaying Armadillo, as well as SpaceX, and overplaying the capabilities of Scaled Composites. While the particular example of Armadillo that he uses certainly doesn&#8217;t seem capable of much beyond a unique tourist experience, the key feature of Armadillo&#8217;s engines is that they are modular, and so can be linked together to achieve any desired power. In addition, Armadillo&#8217;s engines exhibit control that completely surpasses the capabilities of any previous rockets.</p>
<p>SpaceX is a company he leaves completely unmentioned, and yet they&#8217;ve already succeeded in orbital capabilities. While they haven&#8217;t yet developed a tourist (or even passenger!) vehicle, they&#8217;re much more focused on succeeding as a company heading to space. Tourism can happen when they know they&#8217;re a viable company.</p>
<p>As for the capabilities of SpaceX, they&#8217;re still going to be confined to sub-orbital. While their rocket design may be something that can be enlarged at a future point to an orbital vehicle of some sort, the current sub-orbital capabilities would seem to limit their industry to tourism &#8211; and both Armadillo and SpaceX would seem to have designs that can go orbital with less development.</p>
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