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Commercial space CEO defends “personal satellite” program
A “commercial space” company defends pre-booking $8,000 satellite launches on their first low-cost orbits in December of 2010. (And faces some hard questions, like “aren’t you offering to do something that you haven’t proved you can do yet?” and about the fact that their address is a P.O. box in the desert.)
“To send a rocket to the Moon is not as difficult as both the industry and the non-technical public would have you believe… once you’re in low-earth orbit, you really are halfway to anywhere in the Solar System.”
And he adds that “the orders are rolling in,” saying now they’re working on setting up a cheap lunar mining program as well.
