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Musk's SpaceX to Launch Top Secret Spy Satellites for US Gov: Report
- metadat 4y agoUn-paywalled: https://archive.ph/IXrBr https://archive.ph/IXrBr
- martin8412 4y agoI'm sure Musk will blabber about the secret payload on Twitter during his next wine and Ambien bender
- bergenty 4y agoPeople are not on board with your statement. I don’t see a lot of entrepreneurs doing interesting things and I don’t want the few that do taken down. I’m not even white and I think I’m going to continue to be on team Elon until he starts becoming borderline nazi or something.
- frankharv 4y agoI don't think there are many launch options at all. Even Elon competitors had to book SpaceX launches. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-europe-eyes-spacex-fill-launch-void-left-by-russian-tensions-2022-08-12/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-europe-eyes-s...
- bell-cot 4y agoThey save the most humorous bit 'till the end: > The United Launch Alliance, a Boeing and Lockheed-Martin joint venture, is still awaiting similar approval [to launch top secret spy satellites] from the Space Force for its Vulcan rocket with engines made by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, per Bloomberg's report. One wonders how difficult & uncertain approval can really be, when the only (ongoing) competitor to your "3 of 3 launch success record" rocket is a never-flown rocket built around a never-delivered rocket engine.