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It would be nice if the article told you how many successful missions SpaceX has launched. I see failed mission articles on HN every once in a while. I have no
by cocoa19 9y ago
It would be nice if the article told you how many successful missions SpaceX has launched.
I see failed mission articles on HN every once in a while. I have no idea if this is business as usual, or SpaceX is a company with serious quality issues.
- llamataboot 9y agoIt's hard to determine an acceptable loss/win ratio in this space though. SpaceX is surely pushing a lot of boundaries, with some big winds and losses. I think speculation about what sort of losses are "okay" is mostly editorializing.
- andygates 9y agoThey're on about 50 launches, and about 40 with regular payloads rather than their in-house capsule. The second stage and payload deliver has - to date - a 100% success record. It's a great bit of kit. The failures have been first-stage related, thus far, and now possibly customer-adapter related. I can't comment on how many other non-capsule launches have custom adapters, but SpaceX do make and use their own usually. To a first approximation, maybe 10% are non-standard?