Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!geovision!alastair
From: alastair@geovision.uucp (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Canada and comsat history
Message-ID: <446@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 16:28:16 GMT
References: <1988Oct28.180827.25578@utzoo.uucp> <2074@kalliope.rice.edu> <1844@garth.UUCP> <3473@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Nov13.062139.1075@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1988Nov13.062139.1075@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <3473@vpk4.UUCP> scott@attcan.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie) writes:
>>... Who do you think launched the first communication sat?
>
>I must regretfully shoot down my compatriot, here.  (Regretfully, hell,
>I enjoy it! ;-))  Canada put up the first non-Soviet domestic comsat.
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Come on now, Henry.  You know as well as I do that Canada hasn't put
up *any* satellites, or indeed anything more than a few sounding rockets.
It has built satellites, and it has paid the US and Arianespace to launch
them (which could, I suppose, be considered putting them up), but
Canada can't launch anything even to LEO without somebody else's help.
-- 
"The problem is not that spaceflight is expensive,  | Alastair J.W. Mayer
therefore only the government can do it, but that   | alastair@geovision.UUCP
only the government is doing spaceflight, therefore | al@BIX
it is expensive."                                   |