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IIRC, wasn't its arrival at Europa delayed in order to switch the launch contract to Musk on an apparently inside deal?
by wolverine876 3y ago
IIRC, wasn't its arrival at Europa delayed in order to switch the launch contract to Musk on an apparently inside deal?
- hydrogen7800 3y agoMy understanding of the situation was that they had to design for 2 very different mission profiles depending on the launch vehicle, which was very burdensome to the engineers. The implied politics as I could infer, was the requirement to design for use of SLS as a launch vehicle (naturally, for a NASA mission), which some engineers had low expectations of being operational in time.