Comments on: Another smallsat launch venture enters the market. But is there a market for it? http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/08/another-smallsat-launch-venture-enters-the-market-but-is-there-a-market-for-it/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: pat b http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/08/another-smallsat-launch-venture-enters-the-market-but-is-there-a-market-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1340240 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:24:27 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2512#comment-1340240 It is extremely hard to make a 2 stage pressure fed vehicle close on an orbital solution.
Microcosm played hard at this problem along with Bob Truax and a number of other very competent engineers.
I hope they get some gains on a aerospike, but, the problem is less then tractable.

They may find that they need 3 stages to make the solution close.

]]> By: Pete Zaitcev http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/07/08/another-smallsat-launch-venture-enters-the-market-but-is-there-a-market-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1340056 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:38:48 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2512#comment-1340056 Obviously Alpha is a stepping stone for Beta.

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