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Vector, Virginia Space announce upcoming orbital launches from Wallops
This past week, it was announced that nanosatellite launch service provider Vector had inked a deal with the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (more commonly known as Virginia Space) to conduct three commercial flights out of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) over the course of the next two years with possibly five additional launches in the offing.
The agreement was announced by Virginia State Governor Terry McAuliffe with an "engineering unit" of the company's Vector-R launch vehicle being transported from the company's headquarters located in Tucson, Arizona, to MARS. Along for the journey was a Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) – used to erect the rocket into the vertical position.
Vector will also conduct a series of ground and simulated propellant loading operations with the engineering unit and TEL.
Vector is hoping to launch satellites at a cost of $2-3 million per launch using the Vector-R rocket.
MARS is a pretty bad name for a spaceport in Virginia.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:16AM (4 children)
I get paid when my driver reaches beta, but I do not know yet when that will be. I'm taking quite a lot longer than I originally estimated because I didn't write any device drivers during my madness and my homelessness. I was eventually able to recover my 1337-ness in the last month.
GoFundMe so far enables me to pay my chiropractor for November, to cover the copays for my happy pills, and groceries for two weeks. I still need to cover my telephone, internet and dental insurance. That's $120. Dental is required by ObamaCare. Were I not a contract programmer I could do without the phone and net for a little while, but since I _am_ a contract programmer I need them.
My chiropractor is treating Cervical Radiculopathy - a pinched nerve in my neck that causes excruciating pain in my left arm. Nine "adjustments" so far have greatly reduced the pain, but he said I would require eight weeks, three adjustments per week.
I was looking into surgery when a spinal surgeon advised me to exhaust all other treatments first. He - the spinal surgeon - specifically recommend chiropractic.
Someone requested I accept BitCoin. I'm also setting up litecoin and ethereum.
I'll sign up for amazon's competitor to PayPal after I post this.
I mostly appeared sane online the last few years, but really I was totally out of my tree. One day I told a couple of complete strangers that I was a Secret Service Agent. I really did believe that at the time.
There is always some tiny speck of truth from which grows my delusions and hallucinations: I have a friend who knows Jimmy Carter. Somehow that speck sprouted all over my yard.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:38AM (1 child)
I don't know if the codes in the parent post still work. Do they change every time I click their "Receive" buttons?
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by lx on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:40AM
Cryptocoin adrresses never expire.
The old receive addresses are still part of your wallet, so coins sent to them will end up in your wallet.
You get a new address every time so the people you've dealt with can't see your other transactions. This is not an issue with a publicly posted receive address because by publishing it you've stated for all to see that it's yours.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:39AM
Clue me in, o soylentnews Kenobi. You're my only hope!
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:43AM
A new address is generated for every transaction I initiate, but all the addresses that have been issued will work forever:
https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2276500-why-did-my-wallet-address-change- [coinbase.com]
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]