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There was also appropriately named Sea Launch company, an joint enterprise between 4 countries that made 30+ launches between 1999 and 2014 from a repurposed oi
by eps 2y ago
There was also appropriately named Sea Launch company, an joint enterprise between 4 countries that made 30+ launches between 1999 and 2014 from a repurposed oil platform - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch
- robin_reala 2y agoThere’s also Copenhagen Suborbitals, which seems to be still going despite their cofounder being Peter Madsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals
- lifestyleguru 2y agoThere must be something intrinsically pathological about the rocket business, talking back to V2/NASA origins. Are there any non evil individuals in there?
- huhtenberg 2y agoYou've gotta be trolling.
- relaxing 2y agoYou can look back to the original Futurist manifesto which took the glorification of power through technology and turned it into the original Fascist movement.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoFind-replace electricity with AI in a Marinetti speech [1] and you basically have an Andreessen Horowitz press release. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti#Futurism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti#Futu...
- lupusreal 2y agoI challenge you to find anything bad to say about Maxime Faget, one of the finest spaceflight engineers there ever was.
- stavros 2y agoI Googled Peter Madsen, figuring he did some securities fraud or whatnot, but wow, no, full-on submarine murder.
- cubefox 2y agoSea Launch is covered in the Technology Review article.
- simne 2y agoSea Launch was born dead, because huge share own by Russians (in reality, Russian gov), and they are inexperienced on market economy. Final end of company become, when Russians pushed Boeing to quit company and after that transaction, non-Russian co-owners become minority. So, even at best times, of company, even with best technical side, their marketing and business strategy suffer from owners so much, that this killed company.