@kimholder late reply but... haha thanks, maybe a bit laid back since I was fighting the flu, funny you use "hobbit-like", I was told recently I look like Martin Freeman
oh man I love anything cool and new, but that solar reflector project makes me cringe -- is it really so great to reflect sunlight to light cities at night? You either need a constellation that provides continuous light or a geo version, which is probably ridiculous to hope for
probably quite difficult to abort -- you're either coming in close enough you hope for a landing, otherwise it won't even hit anyway, once it's almost landing there probably isn't much you can do
Cool, I assume they don't scrub because landing conditions are no good (well I think they did that for a previous launch but I assume not for SES-9 since they have been waiting so long)
@Hohmannfan haha true, not exactly perfectly smooth, but I think they just meant the abort was not during the countdown, they made it to t = 0 and then the abort happened during ignition, probably t plus 0.0001 seconds or something
I still haven't had a chance to talk to him in person, but I'm sure I will at ASTRO 2016 in May, so I'll bring up Moonwards and see how receptive he is, you can always send him an email to bug him (of course you can mention me) since he loves to talk about this stuff
@kimholder yea sorry I didn't reply, I hit "mark as unread" and put it behind a number of those delayed replies... Alex's stuff is always very dense, he is not a fan of trimming things down unfortunately!
