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« Another Kennedy | Main | On Muslim dissenters » Thursday, February 8, 2007Department of wasteSea Launch has been a fairly low-profile government project since its debut in 1999. Developed by a consortium of companies from four nations --the US (Boeing), Russia, Ukraine, and Norway -- it supplies a technique for launching rockets into geosynchronous orbit. The payloads on these rockets are generally satellites for use by "such customers as EchoStar, DirecTV, XM Satellite Radio, and PanAmSat," so naturally the Feds aren't wasting their money on this, or not much anyway. Nevertheless, it is discouraging to see abject failure. Now presumably Boeing will need to charge more for their planes, and we'll end up paying for that. Posted by Evan Hughes at 01:19 PM
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