http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/06/24/world-view-tests-scale-model-of-its-high-altitude-balloon-system/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/06/24/world-view-tests-scale-model-of-its-high-altitude-balloon-system/comment-page-1/#comment-1332896 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:21:48 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2489#comment-1332896 Seems to be going quite well. I do wonder just how scalable the parafoil is and what their fall-back procedures will be for a parafoil failure. Wonder how they’ll stack up as competition of VG. Personally, I think I’d prefer the leisurely route but there will be adrenaline junkies out there that’ll go for VG and then there’s price. VG are likely to increase prices but then I think so will World View once they finally get to an operational system. You can pretty much guarantee that intial costings, when it comes to space, are invariably overly optimistic.
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