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In article <BzqMxr.MuH@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com> steveha@microsoft.com (Steve Hastings) writes:
>>What are the Pegasus folks up to right now?
>
>The third launch is slated for January.  If that works out okay, they hope
>to ramp things up very quickly in 1993.  There's a backlog of payloads
>waiting for the second-launch problems to be solved.
>
>(Yes, problems plural:  apparently they had both a first/second-stage
>separation problem, and a fairing-separation problem.)  (Yet more proof
>that God did not mean us to build rockets that shed parts on the way up. :-))

And to think, it was only last year that Pegasus was the net's darling
that was going to bring the cost of space travel down to nil. These
bandwagons are not only crowded, they also seem to be short lived. It's
funny that the flaws only show up when something actually flies.

Gary

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