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William Pickering must be watching this from somewhere proud as punch , they got the bastard up in orbit.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11979201
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sooo does this mean we can expect some threatening tweets from Trump very soon?
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These guys are about to stare down the barrel at a massive payoff. One more launch and they deem themselves ready for commercial customers. Apparently they can use the same sized rocket as most satellites these days are about the size of a microwave oven. Our airspace is much less congested and our much lower fabrication costs mean that a launch could be a 10th of their competitors' price
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Maybe they need NZ navy to patrol the exclusion zone, to keep the cray poachers out during the launch windows.
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@stockcar86 said in Rocket Lab:
Maybe they need NZ navy to patrol the exclusion zone, to keep the cray poachers out during the launch windows.
I don't know if it's the NZN's responsibility, being a private company and all. Might need to patrol it themselves
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@canefan said in Rocket Lab:
I don't know if it's the NZN's responsibility, being a private company and all. Might need to patrol it themselves
Could they actually do that? They wouldn't own the waters around the site. How far off shore does private land go?
That sea view might cause them some problems.
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@snowy said in Rocket Lab:
@canefan said in Rocket Lab:
I don't know if it's the NZN's responsibility, being a private company and all. Might need to patrol it themselves
Could they actually do that? They wouldn't own the waters around the site. How far off shore does private land go?
That sea view might cause them some problems.
No idea. I guess they need cooperation with nz authorities regarding the use of airspace so maybe they can, as the French say, do a deal
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well they were talking to Jacinda about that this morning and I wasnt paying that much attention (cos there was more pregnancy talk) but the gist I got was there was some legislation that had to be rushed through for them to do the launches, but is further stuff that is needed going forward...not to mention the sign off required to put something into space from the Universe Police, USA
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@taniwharugby said in Rocket Lab:
well they were talking to Jacinda about that this morning and I wasnt paying that much attention (cos there was more pregnancy talk) but the gist I got was there was some legislation that had to be rushed through for them to do the launches, but is further stuff that is needed going forward...not to mention the sign off required to put something into space from the Universe Police, USA
I just did some googling and it looks like there is no 'Universe police'. There are bodies that keep track of frequencies etc but no actual rules in place.
The caveat to that is that it is expected that everyone play nice with each other as it is quite easy to get revenge on someone pissing you off by blocking or degrading signals.
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@crucial yeah comment was kinda tongue in cheek
anywhoo, in more good news on Rocket Lab
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Haven't yet managed to spot the Humanity Star - most nights when I've thought to check the tracker it's been well east of NZ. Tonight might have been the night - but, I doubt we'll be seeing much - including the super duper, blue-blood, red moon river.
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