Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Canada and comsat history
Message-ID: <1988Nov18.180213.1439@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Oct28.180827.25578@utzoo.uucp> <2074@kalliope.rice.edu> <1844@garth.UUCP> <3473@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Nov13.062139.1075@utzoo.uucp> <446@geovision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 88 18:02:13 GMT

In article <446@geovision.UUCP> alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer) writes:
>>... 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...

One normally speaks of NASA having built the shuttle, even though (unlike
for the Saturn V) NASA did no metal-bending at all on the shuttle.  NASA
and Arianespace were paid subcontractors on the Anik launches, no more.

Bristol Aerospace has actually looked at building a Scout-class launcher.
Not difficult to do, given that the Scout is basically a stack of big
sounding rockets, and Bristol builds good sounding rockets (and sells
them to NASA, among others).  Either their management is feeling timid,
or it hasn't seemed worthwhile.
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