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T-16 minutes & counting!
Hello All,
A Minotaur vehicle will lift off from the Cape in 16 minutes, and here's a live video feed: http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/08/2...-status-center/
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The Ruskies don't like the Minotaur...or more accurately, they like to use it to gripe at the USA. They claim our space boosters like the Minotaur that are derived from decommissioned ICBM's should still count as ICBM's for the arms reduction treaties.
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Their gripes are even sillier in light of this fact: They do the very same thing that we do with the Minotaur vehicles (which use Minuteman or Peacekeeper stages, depending on the Minotaur variant). Their Start-1--and the single, failed "double-second-stage" Start--launch vehicle (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-1 ) uses surplus stages from their solid propellant Topol ICBM, some of which were retired as per the START I treaty. (Plus, the retired Topols, being road-mobile, would be even easier to "re-assemble and re-militarize" than the retired Minuteman and/or Peacekeeper ICBMs, since the Topol TELs [Transporter-Erector-Launchers] could be quickly re-loaded with new missiles after firing their first ones, so a treaty-limited number of Topol TELs wouldn't be so limiting [I don't know if a Topol TEL could be re-loaded rapidly enough for it to matter in a nuclear war, but the capability exists nevertheless--their ballistic missile submarines also have this "fast re-load" capability].)
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