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Do you have some other country in mind that could support a nascent space company?
by throwthere 5y ago
Do you have some other country in mind that could support a nascent space company?
- CalChris 5y agoThe point wasn't just about SpaceX. "A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months". That semiconductor manufacturing industry is largely overseas and has been for awhile.
- throwthere 5y agoI don't quite follow you here. Sure, lots of (non-Intel) semi-manufacturing happens outside the US in 2021. But when the industry built itself, a huge portion was in the... USA. Just like the space industry.
- dnautics 5y agoand is, oddly enough, coming back to the US. There's a semiconductor fab opening in Austin courtesy of Samsung, and a semi fab in arizona courtesy of TSMC. I guess they are taking advantage of labor and technical expertise due to intel's chandler site?
- throw0101a 5y ago> I guess they are taking advantage of labor and technical expertise due to intel's chandler site? Or geopolitical concerns.
- dnautics 5y agoWell yeah but there are 50 United States, they picked that one.
- hef19898 5y agoRussia, the EU, China. Basically every nation or political entity with enough launches to jump start a new launch program. Out of these only the US went with a private new comer. The EU choose to develop a new Ariane launcher, while China went with national program.
- T-A 5y agohttps://tracxn.com/explore/NewSpace-Startups-in-China https://tracxn.com/explore/NewSpace-Startups-in-China