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True. But why should they be that open? I imagine SpaceX has quite a bit of intellectual property that is non trivial that they don't necessarily want to just h

True. But why should they be that open? I imagine SpaceX has quite a bit of intellectual property that is non trivial that they don't necessarily want to just hand over to their competition. They are doing quite a few cool things with radios in star link that I imagine are very valuable technology. I watched the latest interviews of Everyday Astronaut over the weekend. Very nice deep dive in the current state of star ship and all the tech involved with that. But there were clearly a few details that Elon wasn't ready to discuss. Which is understandable. As for the question at the end of the article. The FCC is a federal institution with jurisdiction in the US. SpaceX operates a global network of satellites that covers most of the planet. So, going through the ITU seems like it's not a strange move. They'll need approval from more than just the FCC to operate those 30K satellites, which presumably is what those large nice Starships that they are producing rapidly now are going to be delivering to orbit.

detritus 2y ago
If my memory serves, there were at least a couple of blurred/pixellated details in that. What I also noticed is a change in Musk from early Everyday Astronaut interviews, where rather than tackling the mention of competing technologies or methodologies witha reasoned argument as to why they weren't going that route, he'd clamp up and a few minutes later respond clearly slighted by the proposition. Musk has always been a bit of a hard listen, but I found this last EA interview really hard to get through.
- golol 2y ago
  I think Musk just wanted to make the point that there are many ways to achieve rapid and reliable reusability but they have chosen this one, they are laser focused on making it work, and they know they can make it work. So other ways of doing things are actually not important to him right now.
- modeless 2y ago
  The blurring is for ITAR compliance. It's not SpaceX policy, it's government policy. My impression from the latest interview was that Elon has not been as directly involved in SpaceX technical decisions since buying Twitter and spending a bunch of time on that instead. So he was less able to engage on technical questions.

detritus 2y ago

If my memory serves, there were at least a couple of blurred/pixellated details in that. What I also noticed is a change in Musk from early Everyday Astronaut interviews, where rather than tackling the mention of competing technologies or methodologies witha reasoned argument as to why they weren't going that route, he'd clamp up and a few minutes later respond clearly slighted by the proposition. Musk has always been a bit of a hard listen, but I found this last EA interview really hard to get through.

golol 2y ago
I think Musk just wanted to make the point that there are many ways to achieve rapid and reliable reusability but they have chosen this one, they are laser focused on making it work, and they know they can make it work. So other ways of doing things are actually not important to him right now.
modeless 2y ago
The blurring is for ITAR compliance. It's not SpaceX policy, it's government policy. My impression from the latest interview was that Elon has not been as directly involved in SpaceX technical decisions since buying Twitter and spending a bunch of time on that instead. So he was less able to engage on technical questions.