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Re:Orbital's Cygnus freighter reaches International Space St... by toomuchtodo on Sunday September 29, 2013 @12:22PM (#6465570)
Didn't they just complete a successful launch for Canada mere minutes ago? With completely new hardware? And an untested launch profile?

As we speak, Elon's private plane is over the pacific to observe a simulated return by the first stage: http://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N887XF

Too much publicity? HAH!

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Re:Orbital's Cygnus freighter reaches International Space St... by dingaling on Sunday September 29, 2013 @12:35PM (#6465617)
> Didn't they just complete a successful launch for Canada mere minutes ago?

Orbital Sciences has completed over 100 successful launches in 30 years.

Edit: corrected myself down by an order of magnitude to 100. The perils of relying on memory...

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Re:Orbital's Cygnus freighter reaches International Space St... by toomuchtodo on Sunday September 29, 2013 @12:40PM (#6465636)
Yet they don't iterate as quickly as SpaceX.

If I'm putting a couple hundred thousand dollars aside for my Mars ticket, my money is on SpaceX.

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Re:Orbital's Cygnus freighter reaches International Space St... by pbreit on Monday September 30, 2013 @02:26AM (#6468076)
That's why its launch is non-news.
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