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Posted by tourdemars to Inflatables at May 14, 2004 09:41 AM
Bigelow Aerospace, an American company developing inflatable orbital habitats, has signed a contract for six launches on a Russian Dnepr booster, Russian news services reported this week. According to the RIA Novosti news agency, Bigelow and Kosmotras, the company that markets the Dnepr, signed a contract at the Berlin Air Show this week for six Dnepr launches carrying what the report described only as "civilian satellites."TrackBack URL for this entry:
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The space Hab inflatable unit was one of the cancelled projects that was destined for the ISS.
I hope that the company can make a go of this very unique structural building method. These structures could be considered temporary units for all kinds of different uses.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at May 14, 2004 10:14 AM
The side bar on the SpaceShipOne burn time to sub orbital altitude of 60 miles is only 65 seconds just 10 seconds longer than their last flight. The rest is just glide time up and down after engineers run out of fuel.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at May 14, 2004 12:08 PM