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From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Newsgroups: sci.space,rec.video.satellite
Subject: Re: Access to Space
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.182934.17996@iti.org>
Date: 18 Jun 91 18:29:34 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.220510.15128@sequent.com> <31516@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun18.172719.26033@sequent.com>
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
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In article <1991Jun18.172719.26033@sequent.com> szabo@sequent.com writes:

>>Communications satellites are a pretty loose defintion of 'industry'...

>Interesting.  This ("loosely" defined :-) self-sustaining industry is $6 
>billion per year.                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It is a big industry but it is by no means self-sustaining. Buyers of
launch services only pay the incrimental cost of their launches. They
use huge amounts of infrastructure provided by nasty central planners
(some of it constructed to support evil manned space). This is true for
every launch proveder in the world today.

If we did it your way there wouldn't be any launchers at all.

  Allen

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