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Well they could buy space on Falcon9's :-) Internet Service is a known way to generate cash. But that said, BO seems to be an "announcements" company and not a
by ChuckMcM 6y ago
Well they could buy space on Falcon9's :-) Internet Service is a known way to generate cash.
But that said, BO seems to be an "announcements" company and not a "doing things" company, which is sad. The former relates to research and good ideas, the latter relates to execution of said ideas. I've met one engineer who used to work there and their experience was not particularly positive but it was also anecdotal so I don't give it a lot of weight.
What I do give weight to are seeing results. This is something SpaceX has lately excelled at and BO has not. It seemed like they were "ahead" of Virgin Galactic on the "Suborbital Tourists / Minting Astronauts" thing but now VG seems to be a couple of proof flights away from their first customers. Then they seemed to be ahead of SpaceX's efforts to get the Raptor engine going but the BE-4 stalled (although it seemed to unstall[1] as well). Not that SpaceX's time lines vs announcements are that much better but SpaceX seems to be getting over the finish line more often. As a result I wonder sometimes what is going on over at BO.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/ula-chief-says-the-be-4-rocket-engines-turbopump-issues-are-resolved/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/ula-chief-says-the-b...