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| John Doe |
 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:03 am |
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Always thought HTV was vapourware. But Bill Gerstermier (sp?) during a
press conference said that HTV was scheduled to launch in July 2009.
Not sure if this is an announcement similar to ATV supposed to launch in
the fall of 2003. (or whenever it was originally supposed to launch). |
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| Brian Gaff |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:16 am |
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A lot of long term projects often suffer slip due to the apparent changes in
requirements and parameters over time. Moving the goalposts after the game
has started can be hard to accommodate.
Brian
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"John Doe" <jdoe@doe.org> wrote in message
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Quote: Always thought HTV was vapourware. But Bill Gerstermier (sp?) during a
press conference said that HTV was scheduled to launch in July 2009.
Not sure if this is an announcement similar to ATV supposed to launch in
the fall of 2003. (or whenever it was originally supposed to launch). |
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| Jim Kingdon |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:46 am |
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Quote: Not sure if this is an announcement similar to ATV supposed to launch in
the fall of 2003. (or whenever it was originally supposed to launch).
Well, how much has ISS as a whole slipped since that announcement was
made?
Plus, I vaguely remember something about the way the agreements were
structured giving Europe and Japan an incentive for delaying the first
flight of ATV and HTV. Something like they'd be on the hook for
certain maintenance expenses from that point on, but I won't claim to
have even understood it fully at the time.
Now, having said all that, I don't know whether to believe the 2009
date either. |
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| Jorge R. Frank |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:22 am |
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Jim Kingdon wrote:
Quote: Not sure if this is an announcement similar to ATV supposed to launch in
the fall of 2003. (or whenever it was originally supposed to launch).
Well, how much has ISS as a whole slipped since that announcement was
made?
Plus, I vaguely remember something about the way the agreements were
structured giving Europe and Japan an incentive for delaying the first
flight of ATV and HTV. Something like they'd be on the hook for
certain maintenance expenses from that point on, but I won't claim to
have even understood it fully at the time.
JAXA (like ESA) is on the hook for maintenance only after their
laboratories are attached to ISS. So ATV and HTV have tended to slip
with Columbus and the JEM. |
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| zx |
| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:25 pm |
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Before HTV, Japan need to validate the new rocket H II B,
July 2009 look not realistic, or HTV is launched with other
rocket like ariane, soyouz, ....
"John Doe" <jdoe@doe.org> a écrit dans le message de
news:47d63d7a$0$12758$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Quote: Always thought HTV was vapourware. But Bill Gerstermier (sp?) during a
press conference said that HTV was scheduled to launch in July 2009.
Not sure if this is an announcement similar to ATV supposed to launch in
the fall of 2003. (or whenever it was originally supposed to launch). |
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| Jorge R. Frank |
| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:35 pm |
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zx wrote:
Quote: Before HTV, Japan need to validate the new rocket H II B,
July 2009 look not realistic, or HTV is launched with other
rocket like ariane, soyouz, ....
You have got to be kidding... HTV is too heavy for the Soyuz booster, by
a factor of more than two. |
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| zx |
| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:40 am |
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sorry, friday evening, better to say, proton-k 22t payload low earth
or the futur angara, or atlas or delta IV for usa for 20-25t leo. |
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| Brian Thorn |
| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:04 pm |
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:40:20 +0100, "zx" <nomail@merci.fr> wrote:
Quote: sorry, friday evening, better to say, proton-k 22t payload low earth
or the futur angara, or atlas or delta IV for usa for 20-25t leo.
Lockheed-Martin (or was it Boeing?) already proposed license-built
HTVs for launch by EELV in NASA's COTS program. They failed to make
the final round.
Brian |
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