Bart
2008-06-21 10:18:57
Another problem with the IHS analogy is that, if a car broke down along the way, it would not render the road and its immediate environs unusable for transportation for eternity, or at least until we can invent something like kevlar nets to bring all the junk back down. Our last tango with better-faster-cheaper resulted in a lot of space junk crowing the “roads”, and the Chinese, of course, took out an entire swath with their recent ill-advised, chest-thumping demonstration of satellite kill technology.
What will we do to ensure that the private space cowboys do not litter their paths with heavy metal cowpies whizzing along at 7 km/sec in LEO?
