Comments on: NOAA and DOD highlights http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/15/noaa-and-dod-highlights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=noaa-and-dod-highlights Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Byeman http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/15/noaa-and-dod-highlights/#comment-340108 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:38:33 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4443#comment-340108 “I wonder when the DoD will decide the EELV program is too expensive and fund an alternative.’

Never. It isn’t “too” expensive”. Not anymore than Titan IV, Atlas II and Delta II.

F9 can’t do most of the DOD missions and it is not a given that it would be any better

]]> By: VirgilSamms http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/15/noaa-and-dod-highlights/#comment-340097 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:15:24 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4443#comment-340097 Have to get the taxpayers to build that “Merlin 2″ I guess. Then he can charge us for using it.

]]> By: Beancounter from Downunder http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/15/noaa-and-dod-highlights/#comment-340089 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:40:58 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4443#comment-340089 I wonder when the DoD will decide the EELV program is too expensive and fund an alternative. They don’t have to fund an entire clean sheet system since all the SpaceX F9 (which is quite a bit less expensive than any of the EELv’s) requires is their Merlin 2 but that’s a big job and doesn’t appear to be on their current horizon just yet.

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