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walter_wiggles ,

Click bait. From an article last year:

These effects may be troublesome, but they are short-lived; re-ionization occurs as soon as the sun comes up again.

earthsky.org/…/spacex-launch-punches-a-hole-in-th…

Johanno ,

Another one.

I mean I am not against rocket research, but isn’t there another way without destroying several millions worth if equipment?

pipe01 ,

There is, you can be billions over budget and years behind schedule like NASA

Hydra_Fk ,

Keep licking them boots.

masterspace ,

My god, the fucking dumbasses on here.

“Oh my god, Elon Musk’s companies make electric cars, therefore electric cars must be bad”.

Great logic man! Yep, hardware rich development programs and fixed price government contracting must also be bad because SpaceX has used them to lower launch costs for NASA by orders of magnitude.

Jesus fucking christ, the dumbass blind hate for SpaceX is fucking mind numbing.

alcoholicorn ,

So we can either put billions into one corporation in hope that a trickle of it lets the scientists and engineers do the thing scientists and engineers do, or we can put billions into a bunch of corporations in hope that a trickle of it lets the scientists and engineers do the thing scientists and engineers do.

If only there was an alternative.

masterspace ,

So we can either put billions into one corporation in hope that a trickle of it lets the scientists and engineers do the thing scientists and engineers do, or we can put billions into a bunch of corporations in hope that a trickle of it lets the scientists and engineers do the thing scientists and engineers do.

What are you talking about?

NASA spends a fixed amount of money for launch contracts to put stuff into space.

NASA’s traditional method of contracting, where they would design something, and then having Boeing on retainer to keep asking for more money to build it, and then have congress step in at every step and tell them to use X contractor because it’s in their district, and then not actually get to build or test anything for decades, and then discovering problems and paying Boeing a fuck ton more money to “fix” those problems later, led to massive cost overruns and subpar performance on literally every single launch program they’ve had for the past several decades.

Now NASA is spending that fixed amount of money to SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, etc. and gets a) orders of magnitude more stuff into space and b) does it with no risk of cost overruns since they’re all fixed price contracts.

Competitive bidding on fixed price contracts, is literally the alternative model that the government should have been using this whole time instead of subsidizing their traditional contractors with cost+ contracts.

sharkfucker420 ,
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Or like the military…

Noodle07 ,

Earth gravity is a bitch

WHYAREWEALLCAPS ,

Gravity and Inertia are harsh mistresses.

astrsk ,
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This was last year during the first IFT.

ripcord ,
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Another one what? Did you only read the headline…?

masterspace ,

This is *literally *the first one. There’s only been a single Starship explosion in the upper atmosphere.

And no, that leads to spending decades of time going down paths and intricately designing and simulating every possible detail of a system, only to build them, have something unexpected happen, and then realize that the team never considered X effect in Y, Z, etc conditions, and then have to spend years redesigning everything.

Design it, build it, test it, and get it immediate feedback on, and then redesign it. One way or another, it almost always has to go through that cycle, and it’s a lot cheaper to do it upfront.

iAvicenna ,
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I mean to be fair I think they are probably the first (and maybe still the only?) company that tries to build rockets that can landback and be reused.

Diplomjodler3 ,

There is. The SLS. That is much more economical, right?

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