<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>"Well, I'd expect it to be successful. I mean, it's not exactly brain surgery, is it?"<br><br></div>Or as one wag put it: Rocket science isn't rocket science any more.<br><br></div>Space deployments are still pretty dodgy though. If planes were as unreliable as space craft there would be a crash at Christchurch airport at least once a day.<br><br><br></div>The issue is not being "in the race". What is more important is breaking the cost thresholds that make a whole new tier of space deployments economically viable.<br><br><div><div><div><br><div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Errington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erringtona@gmail.com" target="_blank">erringtona@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Well, I'd expect it to be successful. I mean, it's not exactly brain surgery, is it?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 21, 2018 4:13 PM, "Mark Atherton" <<a href="mailto:markaren1@xtra.co.nz" target="_blank">markaren1@xtra.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">... and it looks like payload deployment was successful - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5234BOED8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=eg5234BOED8</a><br>
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