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If you have used PayPal before 2002 (when if you bought eBay) it is likely that some of your penny is going to end in SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, because its founder and CEO Elon Musk is the co-founder of the South African physicist, dyncorp salaries precisely , PayPal, and now deeply engaged in the adventure of the commercial space.
With products (+ spacecraft launchers) are those that currently the most advanced stage of the program C3PO; of $ 500 million so far in the program, SpaceX if they have in fact already awarded dyncorp salaries nearly 300, brilliantly overcoming several of the steps provided.
The first version of its family of launchers, the Falcon 1, has already completed five flights, two of which succeeded: the last, last summer, carrying a satellite into orbit Malay. SpaceX uses Merlin engines, developed in-house (in fact, it has developed itself dyncorp salaries practically the entire production chain, including dyncorp salaries support structures on the ground), and launches from its facility in the Marshall Islands.
But the next launch, what matters most because it qualifies the Dragon reusable spacecraft (now as cargo, but in perspective configurable for crew), it will be a Falcon 9 (55-meter-high 21 against dyncorp salaries the Falcon 1) and should start from Cape Canaveral, where X has the availability of Space Launch Complex 40 for a couple of years, in the spring of 2010.
I will not go into the technical details, which are beyond the interest of this blog as well as the expertise of the author: Find more of everything on the site of SpaceX. But it is worth noting that in mid-July, the STS-127 tested a sensor that is used for navigation Dragon (or "at" Dragon? Dragon or dragoness? Problems, more problems dyncorp salaries ...) the approach maneuver to Space Station (the capsule does not have a system for attaching its own but is "captured" by the ISS). The approach dyncorp salaries is well represented in a design that I take from the site of SpaceX, but it is courtesy NASA.
Not bad, right? To add to that there is also the SpaceX proudly claims that its aircraft are fully reusable (the first in the world, it seems). And if you spend a few tens of minutes around your site, you almost feel inclined to invest in the company (having to invest, of course). Not surprisingly, the September issue of Popular Mechanics has devoted a long article to Musk and his men, calling them "the most ambitious builders of rockets in the world."
Ambitious maybe, but certainly not unique. To pursue them in more or less close distance there is in fact the other partners in the field of official NASA COTS, Orbital Science Corporation. Which unlike SpaceX has a strong tradition of space, is listed on the Stock Exchange, has plants scattered dyncorp salaries 'to the United States, more than three thousand employees, and above all has to his credit several hundreds of launches and the development of dozens of satellites to his credit. Well rooted in the military with its missile dyncorp salaries defense systems, has long collaborated dyncorp salaries with NASA, which is among other things involved dyncorp salaries in the development of the Orion capsule.
An important and well-established presence in the world space, then, that for commercial transport to the space station puts forward a new version of its launcher Taurus and Cygnus spacecraft: the pressurized module which, unbelievable, is based on the MPLM logistics modules built to 'Alenia in Turin. And in fact, in Turin has been the construction of the outer shell of the module, which also attaches to the Node 2/Harmony ISS, also construction Turin. And as a further contract for the Cygnus went to a Dutch subsidiary of Astrium, you can safely say that Orbital is working on a project rather transnational (or pro-European, if you prefer). Even in the case of Cygnus docking occurs with the capture by the station, namely the Canadian robotic arm. So (the picture is courtesy Orbital):