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> Launching KuiperSats potentially hurts the SpaceX launch vehicle and Starlink businesses in subtle ways. Literally way? This is just flat out false. > Spac
by panick21_ 3y ago
> Launching KuiperSats potentially hurts the SpaceX launch vehicle and Starlink businesses in subtle ways.
Literally way? This is just flat out false.
> SpaceX does not have a reputation for working well with other companies
That's totally ridiculous. SpaceX works with pretty much every sat provider in the world.
The link you sighted is literally a single small mishap when integrating lots of sats. How does this give SpaceX a bad reputation.
They have launched 1000s of sats, having one issue during integration is pretty normal thing to happen. Specially in a case like this where this isn't a very expensive sat. SpaceX has launched dozens of very expensive Darpa/DoD sats totally fine.
In comparison Northrop Grumman recently dropped a 500M sat. So Darpa/Dod have some experiance with things going wrong sometimes.
If anything:
Against: Giving money directly to your competitors.