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Then don't balls to the wall spool up terminal production, bump out your timescale, and shift your strategy to doing more launches, and hope there is enough int
by salawat 5y ago
Then don't balls to the wall spool up terminal production, bump out your timescale, and shift your strategy to doing more launches, and hope there is enough interest to weather things.
Frankly, I have issues with someone who defied every forseeable risk inherent in operating an LEO satcom network. There is a reason most long term comm infra tends to go to GEO... Replacing stuff in LEO because the atmo ate it is expensive.
- irthomasthomas 5y agoTheir products don't seem too popular. E.g. Falcon heavy flew 2 missions in 2019, and 0 since then.
- humanwhosits 5y ago6 FH are scheduled for this year https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/launches/manifest https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/launches/manifest
- mlindner 5y agoMusk wanted to cancel Falcon Heavy, and according to rumors did internally, but then Shotwell (SpaceX COO) reminded him that they'd already sold Falcon Heavy missions to the Air Force so it forced their hand. In reality it should've been canceled as it's not very profitable. What happened is that the Falcon 9 performance kept getting better and better and ate up the market segment that would have been put on to Falcon Heavy.