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Personally I'm not keen on seeing SpaceX doing more military work :/
by nikisweeting 6y ago
Personally I'm not keen on seeing SpaceX doing more military work :/
- andymoe 6y agoThough it’s a nice way to get their dev costs covered for a thing they wanted to build anyway.
- sunstone 6y agoThat and it's not good strategy to poke the king in the eye when he comes asking for a favour. Let's call it 'win win'.
- redis_mlc 6y agoChina and the US have been in an undeclared war for 40 years. We are the closest to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile crisis. Be glad that SpaceX can help our side.
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- DeonPenny 6y agoI'm pretty sure most of there work is US military work. Whether its putting up GPS or other sats
- garmaine 6y agoMost is commercial. Even if you count NRO and GPS as military, most launches are for commercial customers or themselves (Starlink). They do get paid a heck of a lot more for the “military” launches though, so I don’t know how it plays out if you calculate revenue.
- aphextron 6y agoSpaceX operates entirely at the behest of the US government and military. Elon has lofty goals and speaks aspirationally, but they are a defense contractor no different than Lockheed or Boeing.
- avmich 6y ago> SpaceX operates entirely at the behest of the US government and military. Wrong. Correct would be "SpaceX uses US government and military to pursue its goals". > they are a defense contractor no different than Lockheed or Boeing. Wrong. Lockheed or Boeing don't have goals other than profits. Don't you understand Musk's mindset? For a Silicon Valley type he's very understandable.