11. Neither rocket will be powerful enough to put a satellite into orbit. 12. PrimeStar has two satellites that it planned to launch next year, though it now has no allocated spot in space to put those satellites. 13. Putting a satellite into orbit is relatively easy, he says. 14. SSI is responsible for bringing customers and their projects to the site at Vandenberg and putting the satellites into orbit. 15. The expertise needed to put a satellite into orbit is similar to that required to launch a missile. 16. The expertise and technology needed to put a satellite into orbit are similar to what is needed to deliver weapons from a ballistic missile. 17. The expertise needed to put satellites into orbit is similar to that used to deliver nuclear warheads. 18. The Minotaur is one of several rockets under development designed to lower the cost of putting a satellite into orbit. 19. Who cares about putting American satellites on Chinese rockets? 20. Plans are to put the satellite into what the command called a solar-synchronized orbit. |