“The entry of SpaceX into the commercial market is a game changer. It’s going to really shake the industry to its roots.”
As said by the chief technology officer of one of the world’s largest satellite communications company, in reference to today’s scheduled 5:37 pm (Eastern) launch of Falcon 9’s first geosynchronous satellite payload. As this man and Elon Musk also added,
“I don’t want to tempt fate … but I think it’s going to have a pretty significant impact on the world launch market and on the launch industry because our prices are the most competitive of any in the world,” he said.
If SpaceX can deliver, the company’s competitors “will have to improve their designs and really strive to have next-generation rocket technology,” Musk said. “So I think SpaceX could be a powerful forcing function for the improvement of rocket technology. Not just the stuff we do ourselves, but in that we will force other rocket companies to either develop new technology that’s a lot better or they have to exit the launch market.”
Or, Halliwell added, “they have to improve their industrial process very, very significantly, and that’s really where SpaceX has rocked the show.”
The innovation and lowering of prices by SpaceX, combined with the increasing miniaturization of satellites, is going to make space more affordable to many more customers. Eventually, the competition forced upon the launch industry by these factors will make manned spaceflight itself more affordable and routine. It will open up the solar system to us all.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
As said by the chief technology officer of one of the world’s largest satellite communications company, in reference to today’s scheduled 5:37 pm (Eastern) launch of Falcon 9’s first geosynchronous satellite payload. As this man and Elon Musk also added,
“I don’t want to tempt fate … but I think it’s going to have a pretty significant impact on the world launch market and on the launch industry because our prices are the most competitive of any in the world,” he said.
If SpaceX can deliver, the company’s competitors “will have to improve their designs and really strive to have next-generation rocket technology,” Musk said. “So I think SpaceX could be a powerful forcing function for the improvement of rocket technology. Not just the stuff we do ourselves, but in that we will force other rocket companies to either develop new technology that’s a lot better or they have to exit the launch market.”
Or, Halliwell added, “they have to improve their industrial process very, very significantly, and that’s really where SpaceX has rocked the show.”
The innovation and lowering of prices by SpaceX, combined with the increasing miniaturization of satellites, is going to make space more affordable to many more customers. Eventually, the competition forced upon the launch industry by these factors will make manned spaceflight itself more affordable and routine. It will open up the solar system to us all.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The concept of forcing function is a very important one. Innovation doesn’t happen automatically.