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Given the the various aspects of this launch, satellite for Israel, growing competition for Russia's current monopoly on manned launch capacity, entrenched play
by sunstone 10y ago
Given the the various aspects of this launch, satellite for Israel, growing competition for Russia's current monopoly on manned launch capacity, entrenched players disliking the new launch kid on the block etc.
It would be naive not to acknowledge that several nation states and other powerful and knowledgeable tech entities would have an interest in a dramatic failure like this.
- ConfuciusSay02 10y agoElon's statements here add fuel to the already burning fire of suspicion over this event, given the fact that the sale of the company that made the AMOS-6 satellite to a Chinese military controlled company was contingent on this successful launch. If some entity were to have decided they did not want China to get access to this technology, there's your motive.
- sunstone 10y agoOh right, the Chinese connection had slipped my mind. Certainly that too.