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As you say, there are standards and expectations that SpaceX failed to uphold. They shouldn’t be praised or thanked for doing what they should have done in the
by altacc 6y ago
As you say, there are standards and expectations that SpaceX failed to uphold. They shouldn’t be praised or thanked for doing what they should have done in the first place and only corrected after been called out.
- gpm 6y agoYou are confusing two seperate things. The ESA thing, and the standards based thing, is a communication failure, where SpaceX failed to promptly reply to an email by accident. The reflectivity based thing is something without standards more stringent than what SpaceX was already complying with, which they voluntarily chose to improve to be a good citizen, and in which they are going above and beyond the existing standards.