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... and $250,000. The trip to the low Earth orbit will probably be much more expensive for a long time. Although there are many people trying to get the price down below a million dollars, it doesn't look likely any time soon. Most of the expense in flying in space is the launch into orbit. It seems likely that for short ...

Yes, it's very expensive to live in space right now. This is likely to continue for quite some time. ---- ...

'''Author - D. Wade '''Co-Author(s)''' - '''JBIS Volume ''' - Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 64 64 '''Page ''' - 319-324 '''Year''' - 2011 '''Keywords''' - Space insurance, space weather, forecasting, risks '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2011.64.319 '''Number of Pages''' - 6 Abstract This paper considers the implications of space weather ...

This may be possible but it is more likely that there will be a network of distant satellites or other unmanned spacecraft that will be sent deep into the solar system to monitor approaching meteors and asteroids. If any such object is detected, a message would be sent to many different Earth stations at the same time. ---- Answer provided by Ron Kohl Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

... speeds and typically large inclinations, present a much more difficult problem. Only long-term advanced warning capabilities and the ability to use gravitational assist to build up the enormous speed ... debris and missile launches costs billions of dollars of capital investment in equipment and operational expenses. When the new S-band Radar “Space Fence”, that is being installed on the Kwajalein ...

... the weather systems around the globe for forecasting and severe weather monitoring. They can provide warnings to the public about hurricanes and cyclones, tornadoes, floods, fires, and high winds that ... gas and petroleum sources; (b) new space technologies and new materials for huge, not too expensive, and light-weight lenses; (c) improved solar cell technologies that achieve higher efficiency and ...

... with our hydrogen system that played in the Apollo 13 thing, that the caution and warning limit on the pressure was set so low. Basically the way the cryo system worked ... about it for the whole program, because it just, number one, it would have been expensive. You’d have to redesign the whole thing, go in there and redo stuff. So ... in Ivan’s garage as opposed to—but I imagine it was a lot less expensive than ours, too. I mean, there’s a tradeoff there. I saw that. Okay, go ...

... my teeth. The situation in Britain then was, you know, gas was very, very expensive, cars were expensive. If you could run a car, you had to maintain it yourself, do everything ... , it was scrapped. Every slightest malfunction was traced with a big sheaf of paperwork, tremendously expensive and yet it worked. The system did turn out to be reliable enough to do ... some guys had been killed in a fire, so he wanted Eagle to invent a warning system for the hotel in case of a fire. Somebody would push a button in ...

... vehicles, and broadcast satellites. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-45)’’ Establishment of National Natural Disaster Warning System to provide warnings of hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods, and other natural hazards was announced ... in the next few years.” Brownell said that because space labor would be so expensive, efforts were being made to automate as much repair work as possible. ‘‘(Hines, Wash. ...

... to these tragic events have been repeatedly illustrative of exhaustive engineering reviews, detailed hazard assessments, expensive hardware tests and redesigns by system experts. These reviews have been exemplified by the ... instructed one of the planes to adopt a collision course, which was followed despite warnings to the aircrew from the collision avoidance system. Again, if the three Apollo 13 ...

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