At first I thought this article was pointing out a major problem, but the more I read the better I felt. Using the given stats, 15 years ago the “cone” was more than 220 miles. The cone is currently 111 miles, which could grow to 122 miles if the satellite fails. Which is only 6 miles on either side of the current cone.
I don’t see ANYONE shelling out $400mil to gain a 6 mile difference in either direction. You don’t need to have new glasses to tell when a truck is in front of you. And if you do, it’s too late anyhow.
This is just the people in forecasting
(government people) crying wolf. The world will end, the world will end, unless i get the new toy. The rover crafts
were to last on Mars only months they have been there 2 yrs now.
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are they waiting for Halburton to get into the satellite industry?
At first I thought this article was pointing out a major problem, but the more I read the better I felt. Using the given stats, 15 years ago the “cone” was more than 220 miles. The cone is currently 111 miles, which could grow to 122 miles if the satellite fails. Which is only 6 miles on either side of the current cone.
I don’t see ANYONE shelling out $400mil to gain a 6 mile difference in either direction. You don’t need to have new glasses to tell when a truck is in front of you. And if you do, it’s too late anyhow.
The world will be better off and they can play the blame game without bothering us.
This is just the people in forecasting
(government people) crying wolf. The world will end, the world will end, unless i get the new toy. The rover crafts
were to last on Mars only months they have been there 2 yrs now.
Lets see… $400 million for 11 miles. That comes to about $36,000,000 a mile.
If we were talking about a significant difference I might agree, but I can’t see where anyone could consider this cost effective.
Who knows, maybe by 2012 when they start building the new satellite there may be better technology that will let us improve our predictions by 20%.