Reply to post: asteroids?

Oh chute. Two out of three ain't bad, right? asks Boeing after soft-ish crew module landing

Ugotta B. Kiddingme

asteroids?

"Virgin Orbit, the tentacle of Richard Branson's brand with designs on the smallsat market, has announced plans to fit a third stage to its air-launched LauncherOne rocket in order to send smallsat payloads to the Moon, asteroids or as far as Mars."

one presumes they mean those asteroids between Mars orbit and Sol, given that "the vast majority of asteroids catalogued" are BEYOND Mars orbit.

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