Cool video to watch - Euclid Telescope Launch
1 Jul 2023 16:29:18 UTC
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Absolutely COOL video - dual images of the launch of the Euclid Telescope into space with the stage one landing back on a sea platform.
About 10 minutes
George
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Yes, very cool. It's becoming
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Yes, very cool. It's becoming rather pedestrian for SpaceX launches. But make no mistake, the amount of engineering and perfection of execution is awe inspiring.
Thanks! I have made a habit
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Thanks! I have made a habit of watching SpaceX launches. They way they turned the extraordinary into routine never ceases to amaze me.
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Yeah, those Falcon 9s are
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Yeah, those Falcon 9s are absolute hot rods.
I looked up their 'rideshare' program : you can put 10kg into low Earth orbit for the bargain price of $330K USD !
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Awesome!
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Awesome!
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Mike Hewson wrote: Yeah,
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Believe it or not, you can put up 50kg into orbit for the same $330K USD. The price starts going up from there. :>)
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Mike Hewson schrieb:I looked
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The flexible payload options for small and micro payloads are impressive. But it is not a "bargain price" if you look on overall costs.
Europe's Arianespace names 150 million EUR for a Ariane 5 launch to lift 10 tons from Kourou (French Guiana) into GTO which is €150K for 10kg (into geosynchronous transfer orbit). But Arianespace says SpaceX's Falcon 9 are 'way cheaper' than their Ariane 5 system. They started a cooperation with Roskosmos to offer a launch system for smaller payloads < 5 tons. So the Russian Soyuz ST-A/B can be launched from Kourou too. Arianespace says Soyuz launches incurs half the costs of Ariane 5 per (metric) payload ton. Anyway, the Russian-European cooperation is dead, not because of the war. SpaceX Falcon 9 is cheaper in any aspect and Arianespace was forced to construct a small, cost-optimized Ariane 62 to replace Soyuz within the next few years. Ariane 62: 4.5t GTO, 10.3t LEO for €70M which is €67.6K for 10kg into LEO). Presumably that's a competitive price to match SpaceX which they can't currently.