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SpaceX will attempt historic catch of returning Starship booster on Sunday (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Cool, then get NASA to actually do something vs hamstringing itself with bureaucrats...the only reason people like you rage against SpaceX is because it's tied to that idiot musk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

everything spacex has done has been because of nasa.......

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're joking right? No they have not.... I love NASA, but acting like what spacex has done is only because of NASA is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

because everything spacex has done is because of nasa. all spacex does is toss unlimited money at exploding rockets and pollute the environment and ecosystem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

SpaceX insisted on fixed price contracts. Unlike the other companies doing cost-plus contracts (aka unlimited money contracts), SpaceX sets a price on government services and then delivers for that price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lol no they have not

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

NASA is hamstringing itself? Tell me more. I don't know anything about NASA, but I would have guessed the bureaucrats were external.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

NASA has a ton of internal bureaucracy, hell they have an article on it.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-vision-sparked-commercial-space-revolution-on-space-coast/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The US government moreso than NASA as funding for them as been an easy punching bag for both political parties lately.

The other thing is optics. NASA isn't allowed to blow up 20 rockets on their designs. They only get one chance to get it right. That's why the SLS has only 1 launch and is 1/1 as opposed to the SpaceX Dragon and Starship can just throw money at them until they work.

Not saying one way is better than the other, just that NASA has to fight not to make the front page because 9/10 it means they made a mistake which costs them more funding. IMO all of this is going to come up to a very slow pace akin to NASA when we start with crewed missions (SpaceX Starship will be mission controlled by NASA as well). They super don't fuck around with crewed launches, especially after the botched Boeing Space launch. And a crew launch failure affects everyone SpaceX and NASA alike.