I had lunch with Mitchell Burnside Clapp a few months ago, when he told me about this program. This doesn’t seem true, though:
Today there’s one way to get a satellite into space: launch it from the ground on a booster rocket, which is expensive and can take weeks or months between missions to prepare the launch pad.
What’s Pegasus, chopped liver? Not that we couldn’t stand to get the cost way, down, of course.
What a name. Anyway, I have an article about it up over at Popular Mechanics.
[Update a while later]
Here’s some more info. According to that piece, it’s dropping in altitude a little over a mile per orbit, but that will accelerate as it gets lower in the coming weeks, if they can’t get it on its way.
[Update a few minutes later]
Emily Lakdawalla has the latest. It’s not looking good, according to sources in Russia.
…was not botched. Not, it did exactly what they intended it to do. As she says, the only thing they botched was in letting us find out about it.
Jonah Goldberg is asking the serious questions.
Explaining the anti-semitism of #OccupyFail:
No, really.
Either there is a Democrat/Perry conspiracy against him with multiple lying women, or he’s a pathological liar.
I don’t know which it is, but he’s looking very Clintonian to me.