At 4:57 PM -0600 2/20/01, Jim Choate wrote:
Sealand would be a perfect place for a group of suitably motivated persons to attempt to place experimental class rockets with can-sat's into orbit. They could of course apply for a slot in the orbital parking orbits or buy one from one of the S. Pacific islands whose major incomes is sales of same. A more optimal mechanism is put them in a short term parking orbit that decays in about 2 months. Then put another bird up with new keys and potentialy capabilities. Then you wouldn't necessarily need anyone permission to play.
Sealand is a _terrible_ launch location. For multiple reasons. Your ignorance is astounding to behold. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns