Recent content by Mader Levap

What it have anything to do with topic? Do you think that only citizens from space-faring countries have right to post here or what? :rolleyes: You can't in one sentence claim they do not much, if anything - and then in very next sentence say they do something (and say it in way suggesting it...

What? How do you want to make Ariane 6 reusable while using solids? Okay, they are boosters, but it is still multimilion $ things that you just throw away. It is all theoretical anyway. In resources (articles, press etc) about Ariane 6 there is no word whatsoever about reusability. Unless...

http://aviationweek.com/space/nasa-spacex-share-data-supersonic-retropropulsion Quick, someone tell them they are wasting time. Why would NASA ever talk to them, indeed. :rolleyes:

Now original video, not unclear video of video: In hindsight, some certain comments here and there are... pretty funny now... :rolleyes:

Yes, failure will happen sooner or latter. And you will decry it as end of the world and doom for SpaceX. :rolleyes: Quality, not quantity.

What technology? Recovering stage? May I ask about 60's technology (or any decade, for that matter) that had returning first stage to sea (soon to be "to land") with legs, supersonic retro propulsion and all that jazz? Dishonest? If you are speaking about long term plans and Mars ambitions, I...

MattBaker, Urwumpe, you are about 10 years too late to treat SpaceX and Musk as amateur rocket hobbyists. But hey, haters gonna hate. :shrug:

Of course. Everyone knows that in entire space business only SpaceX is late and slips, making it unforgivable sin (and whole venture being complete failure)... :rolleyes:

While I admit I could be less sarcastic, basic facts are same: Skylon is at powerpoint stage and slips like everyone else.

Here? Skylon fanboys see reusable stages of standard rockets as extreme danger to their toy. And they are right, after all Skylon - if it will exist at all - will compete with reusable rockets of future, not expandable rockets of today. Though luck. In general? Because they smacktalk and are...

I had to search for it year by year, as - of course :rolleyes: - I could not find any page showing subsidies for entire existence of Ariane 5. Fortunatley it wasn't that bad. 2013: 100 mln euro 2011 & 2012: 217 mln euro 2004-2010 (six year package): over 1 bilion euro This is very rough, of...

Yeah, because no one else does that, certainly not Ariane that get so small and insignificant (as you said) subsidies - barely ten times bigger. :rolleyes: You really do not have any ground for criticism when you use double standards for different space companies. I get it, you like european...

I will focus only on most important tidbits, as you write decidedly too much to take care of everything. I will argue every launch provider does business with goverment and charges it more (if only for mountain of red tape). In other word, banning SpaceX from doing business with goverment would...

You are talking like SpaceX is only space launcher company in world that has business from goverment (and that seems automatically equate to "subsidy", whatever that means). If your only criteria is "having goverment business", then sure. Why I would want to treat this kind of argument...

Erm, launch date slip is not scrub.