Comments on: Will the smallsat community get charged up by Electron? http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: numbers_guy101 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1514187 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:18:20 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1514187 Perhaps the driving reason for New Zealand here is the oft quoted one – the “Range”. Though that does leave open the question of why they didn’t go out to Mojave? Is the Mojave situation not quite there when it comes to over-flight of new expendable, orbital capable vehicles?

]]> By: Ingo http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1454392 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:39:53 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1454392 Having held positions at these companies doesn’t mean that he left these companies in good terms.

]]> By: Paul Scutts http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1451635 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:56:59 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1451635 Bob, me old china, the main thing that they have in common is that they’re both NOT America.

]]> By: Bob http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1440997 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 21:40:10 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1440997 Clearly the space industry experts aren’t hanging out on “Hacker News”.

]]> By: Bob http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1440991 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 21:38:22 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1440991 I think there’s a big difference between New Zealand and North Korea, kiddo.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1440827 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 20:29:15 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1440827 Speaking of Firefly, it’s interesting that their CEO used to work at Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin, and SpaceX. Put another way, he’s been a key engineer at quite a few important modern space businesses.

http://www.fireflyspace.com/about/the-team

Hacker News has interesting, recent commentary on both Rocket Lab (1) and Firefly Space Systems (2):

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100583
(2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998609

]]> By: Paul Scutts http://www.newspacejournal.com/2014/08/02/will-the-smallsat-community-get-charged-up-by-electron/comment-page-1/#comment-1440769 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 20:04:12 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2577#comment-1440769 An American company with it’s head office in Auckland, really? What’s next? An American company with it’s head office in Pyongyang?

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