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Real redundancy is provided through high cadence operations, which is SpaceX all the way. Paying billions extra for inferior hardware adds little redundant ben

• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  That's only one dimension of redundancy. The other one is control/ownership. High cadence won't save you if they suffer a problem that shuts down their entire fleet for a year, or if through a hyperloop accident Gwynne Shotwell gets replaced by her counterpart from the mirror universe, and decides to stop servicing US government unless she gets to be the empress. Point being - and tangentially, it's somewhat of a blind spot in tech industry - besides scaling, you also really need ownership/control redundancy. Legal single points of failure are still single points of failure.