Doug, Yeah, well, that'll teach me not to use prissy prose. Some registered rocket scientist emailed me and pointed out that conic section actually means the lines you get when you slice across a conical function at various angles. You get a circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola. Which is nice because that means the conical analogy is better than I thought, relating to the various orbits used by satellites, from Globalstar's circular, Ellipso's elliptical and journeys to Mars which I guess are sort of parabolic, hyperbolic or wobbly going past the moon.
Hyperbolic will also match the price/time graph for Globalstar [and earlier, Q.com].
I can pretend I meant a conic section as in a piece of a conical function, but that wouldn't strictly be true, so I'll just have to go with sloppiness, or more accurately, stupidity. Oh well.
He went on to say that he is concerned about the Russian Zenit launches - due to financial problems rather than technical. He is involved with the international space station, so seemed to know what's up. With cash on the barrelhead, Globalstar might be more likely to be launched, but Russia seems more of a worry than Korea if you ask me!
Meanwhile, Mr Adrenaline kindly provides - SATELLITE RISKS IN SPACE!!! Thanks Mr A.
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Maurice
PS: Don't forget to get your Q.coms before the ship leaves port.
- and I go along with your GSTRF/IRIDF comparison, though I'm as certain as for most things that they'll both work and make plenty of return on shareholder funds. |
