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Let's compare apples to apples. Krhunichev has its own massive supply chain, it doesn't make everything in house as well. Spacex has 5k employees on payroll, K
by varjag 8y ago
Let's compare apples to apples. Krhunichev has its own massive supply chain, it doesn't make everything in house as well.
Spacex has 5k employees on payroll, Khrunichev 45K, a 9x difference.
- baybal2 8y agoOne is a research institute with commercial launch business, another is a launch company, with own RnD, and production. We have to compare apples to apples.
- varjag 8y agoKhrunichev is a design and manufacturing facility, directly comparable to SpaceX. SpaceX also manages its own launches. The whole idea that a post-Soviet state bureaucracy is not just comparable, but somehow more nimble than a new commercial upstart is ridiculous.