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Title: NGIS highlights advantages of their Air Force contract win with OmegA
Post by: Chris Bergin on 10/12/2018 09:02 pm

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/10/ngis-highlights-air-force-contract-win-omega/ - by Chris Gebhardt who visited their base and interviewed the officials face to face. Another article to come from it.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1050853823303090177

Title: Re: NGIS highlights advantages of their Air Force contract win with OmegA
Post by: GWH on 10/13/2018 07:48 pm

Great article, looking forward to the follow up.

Omega's expendable solids might not be as sexy as reusable boosters or upper stages but diversity in the launch market is a good thing. Considering that the national launch market was a monoply only a few years ago, seeing all this competition now is great.

Title: Re: NGIS highlights advantages of their Air Force contract win with OmegA
Post by: HIP2BSQRE on 10/13/2018 07:54 pm

competition is great...

Title: Re: NGIS highlights advantages of their Air Force contract win with OmegA
Post by: GWH on 10/13/2018 08:49 pm

With all the tools NGIS have in their tool box, they should be able to field a strong proposal to provide and/or deliver modules and cargo to the Gateway station.

Title: Re: NGIS highlights advantages of their Air Force contract win with OmegA
Post by: Steven Pietrobon on 10/15/2018 03:26 am

For the rest of the world (besides Liberia and Myanmar). :-)

Title: Re: NGIS highlights advantages of their Air Force contract win with OmegA
Post by: gosnold on 10/15/2018 07:39 pm

I'm curious what the satcom operators think of this design. They sent a public letter to complain about using only solids for the first stage of Ariane 6 (before the design changed).