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Old 10th Aug 2020, 10:46
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How is this system going to be better than that already provided ? We have no current launch vehicle so would be using surprise surprise, a Russian one in the first instance
Do you have any idea how many competing launcher companies there currently are for cubesats? To mention just the obvious one, Spacex is launching over 100+ a month.

In the case of the above, LM has teamed with Orbex to provide the launchers. Though I would assume the government would go out to gender and, with their volume, SpaxeX would be hard to beat. I think the government is more interested in the satellite end of the business than the fireworks end....

https://orbex.space/

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