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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by neverminder on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:46AM (#30539733)
Elon Musk already said SpaceX can easily handle the logistics and I think it's obvious. Political and economical side however is not so clear. But also if and when Starship launches, it will have pressurized volume of the entire ISS, so why just build ISS 2.0?
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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by panick21_ on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:05AM (#30539857)
There is already a Commercial Station program going on from NASA and they didn't select Starship derived station.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-companies-to...

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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by neverminder on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:12AM (#30539924)
"The companies that received awards are: Blue Origin".

So Blue Origin is their choice of launcher then? Because Blue Origin is notorious for demanding awards and delivering exactly jack shit in return.

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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by gameswithgo on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:44AM (#30543336)
It is very weird how seriously they are being taken before they have even reached orbit, at all. It was a bit of a stretch the investment spacex got when they had just reached orbit once with a small rocket, but at least they had done it.
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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by panick21_ on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:29AM (#30540053)
The Core Modules will have to be lifted on New Glenn (or Starship).

This is the first major award Blue Origin actually got, and it will likely be underfunded for years. So lets see, they have a lot to prove.

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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by iso1631 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:49AM (#30539755)
> just build ISS 2.0?

With blackjack and hookers

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Re:OneWeb suspends all launches from Baikonur by voxadam on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:05AM (#30539865)
Somewhere Putin can bite our shiny metal space station.
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