China’s New Wealth-Creation Scheme: Mining the Moon Forum: SSI-List
Thread: China’s New Wealth-Creation Scheme: Mining the Moon
# 23186 byAl Globus on June 13, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
On Jun 13, 2019, at 10:34 AM, 'Combs, Mike' mikecombs@... [ssi_list] ssi_list@... wrote:Encouraging that theyre talking a small SBSP demonstrator as soon as 2025. Discouraging that they project a full-on system in 2050. Why would it take a quarter of a century to progress from demonstrator to commercial system?Operational systems are a lot harder to do than demos. Consider the Ansiari X prize. Won in 2004 and no operational system has flown.