[ExI] test

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:49 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Adrian, post away, me lad.  If anyone complains, we will review.  In this case I would be very surprised if anyone complains.

CubeCab now has a signed, tentative agreement to launch 1,000
satellites from ThumbSat.  (Small satellites, roughly 20 amounting to
a 1U so this is the equivalent of 50 1Us, but still.)  This compares
to:

* The Space Shuttle fleet's 140 total flights (including the 2
disasters and the 5 Enterprise test flights), across its entire
multi-decade career.

* The current world record for the number of satellites on one launch:
ISRO's 104 this past February (which was itself a monumental
achievement).

* The increasing demand for CubeSat-and-smaller satellite launches, as
measured by the number launched per year (about 100 for each of the
past few years depending on how you measure it, after subtracting
launch failures).

Now to see if that qualifies as a sufficient indication of interest.