Space-X and NASA have made history
Space X (1) and NASA made history and the first time private rocket rise the astronauts to the orbital trajectory. The used rocket is Falcon 9(2), and the target of this flight is the ISS (International Space Station). One thing about Falcon-9 is that this kind of rocket is reusable. The height of Falcon-9 is 70 meters and it's 3,7 meters wide.
That is a meter thinner than the space shuttle, what cargo bay diameters were 18,3 meters long and the cargo bay was 4,6 meters wide(3), but the cargo bay can be larger than the rocket itself. And the cargo bay of Falcon-9 is more flexible than the space shuttle. This is the new era for space projects, and maybe the privatization opens the new way to benefit the space.
The privatizing space means that the industrial and financial purposes for that environment can be left to private corporations and governmental organizations can keep their focus in the research. But the thing is that private corporations can also operate a more flexible way when they are creating new technology to make spaceflights easier and cheaper.
The thing in the space is that the imagination is the limit in that kind of things. Space is a great place to make science, but there is also a good place to make business and observe people. And of course, the military would want to observe other satellites for uncovering their systems.
Maybe in the future, the private corporations would send the small unmanned shuttle orbiters to space for working as the small and remote-controlled chemical factories, which can create things like perfect crystals, and also many other types of industry can begin in the space. One of the most interesting ways to benefit the zero-gravity environment is the quantum computer.
That kind of computer can stabilize in the shadow of Earth, and that kind of extreme cold and zero gravitational conditions can make this kind of system possible. But there are many other ways how to benefit space. But as we know nothing is free. Developing new space planes requires money and the new low-cost shuttles like the Virgin Galactic(4) models are interest also military forces.
The same shuttles, which are launch from the mothership aircraft can also be installed to the Falcon 9-rocket, and that kind of lightweight spacecraft can flight to very high. And the thing is that this kind of shuttle, which has extremely high maneuverability would have many missions on the space. Even the lightweight shuttles can be equipped with the 100-700 watt carbon monoxide laser, which can be installed in the middle of its nose. That kind of laser can get its energy from the acetylene light. And that kind of system could be effective against satellites.
But there is one aspect, that people would not usually see when they are seeing this kind of stuff. There are two kinds of spacecraft secret and public. If the public launches will make by using commercial rockets and spacecraft, that means that highly secretive systems would be in cover from the public eye, and the data of those systems are easier to control, and this is the thing, what we must remember when we are seeing that kind of things like Falcon-9 rocket.
(2) https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-9/
(3) https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/shuttle/sts03.htm
(4) https://www.virgingalactic.com/
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