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They could use a commercial space transport service to send the payload into orbit. A company was offering suborbital space launches for a mere $250/kg in 2006:
by reedlaw 15y ago
They could use a commercial space transport service to send the payload into orbit. A company was offering suborbital space launches for a mere $250/kg in 2006: http://blog.makezine.com/2006/04/13/send-some-stuff-to-space/ http://blog.makezine.com/2006/04/13/send-some-stuff-to-space...
- kragen 15y agoIt turns out that the "really high" part of getting things into orbit is actually considerably easier than the "really fast" part. Getting a rocket out of the atmosphere is one thing, but getting it to miss the entire Earth when it falls back down, which is what "orbit" means, is something else entirely.