Comments on: Japan today successfully launched another unmanned cargo freighter to ISS. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japan-today-successfully-launched-another-unmanned-cargo-freighter-to-iss/ Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Patrick Ritchie https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japan-today-successfully-launched-another-unmanned-cargo-freighter-to-iss/#comment-102104 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:38:16 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=24223#comment-102104 And don’t forget that the first Kickstarter funded cubesats (Ardusat) also hitched a ride!

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/08/japans-htv-4-launches-supplies-scienceiss/

The future will tell, but historically this may be much more important than the primary mission…

]]> By: joe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japan-today-successfully-launched-another-unmanned-cargo-freighter-to-iss/#comment-102100 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:29:54 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=24223#comment-102100 Sorry Robert, that last post belongs to Armadillo closes down, my bad!

]]> By: joe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japan-today-successfully-launched-another-unmanned-cargo-freighter-to-iss/#comment-102099 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:17:33 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=24223#comment-102099 (At some risk of butchering this) I am going to call this the invisible hand of creative destruction, tempered with a little crony capitalism and all bets are off as to who will succeed!

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