Using retired Military Missiles as commercial Satellites launcher

After the failure of the SpaceX Rocket recent launch, we at New Technology take a look at commercial/civilian rocket project and how they can be helped by old military tech.

During the recently failure of SpaceX and other civilian space companies/project we at New Technology have been thinking to ourself why these companies are running in the same problems that the military had back in the 50s and 60s during the start of the space project. It would be stupid to think the that lessons learned from the early day of space flights are not being applied to todays technology but this is still an area that holds a lot of unknowns and challenges that require budgets and cost that a company for profit might not be able to withstands. As of this writing today, SpaceX is 0 for 3 with its first rocket in getting an object in to orbit. Trident ii Missile Image Which is why we at New Technology ask why do all the funding goes towards copying what the government did 20/30 years ago when we can purchase it. In todays post cold war world there is a surplus of ballistic missiles that were more then capable of sending multiple reentry bodies across the globe in reelable manner (or so we hoped). This is not the first time this idea has been brought up, in the 80s the Titan IV was original built as an ICBM and was converted for Satellite use. Today the D5 SLBM is going thru a Life Extension program (LE) at Lockheed Martin to make the system ready for the post-nuclear world. And countless weapon system of the former USSR are being decommissions, laying waste, or worst on the black market as we type. These systems could be converted to satellite use for low orbit payloads, by small changes in the systems and weight requirements. The testing would be half what is required for a new system and reliability issues for that most part would have been solved during the Missiles testing face when it was first built. This could act as an stop loss for companies like SpaceX and others to get ready home grown systems at the same time act as an learning tool. We at New Tech are going to be looking in to ways how to get this integrated in to current rocket projects and would be willing to work with any company in facilitating and planing the transition required to make a system like this ready.


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