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How do you schedule a rocket launch when someone else owns the 50-year-old range radar equipment that keeps executing HCF?

toomuchtodo 12y ago
Literally laughed at "Halt and Catch Fire" acronym.
dragonwriter 12y ago
> How do you schedule a rocket launch when someone else owns the 50-year-old range radar equipment that keeps executing HCF? Recognize that even if you don't own the radar equipment, it is impacting your ability to deliver value, so spend the necessary funds to get them to replace the radar equipment with something that doesn't have that problem.
- ceejayoz 12y ago
  > Recognize that even if you don't own the radar equipment, it is impacting your ability to deliver value, so spend the necessary funds to get them to replace the radar equipment with something that doesn't have that problem. And then convince the Air Force to certify and let you use your new radar for their payloads.
  - dragonwriter 12y ago
    > And then convince the Air Force to certify and let you use your new radar for their payloads. Well, yeah, which takes more money. I wasn't intending, upthread, to suggest that the route was easy...
    - ceejayoz 12y ago
      > Well, yeah, which takes more money. There may not be any amount of money that'll make the Air Force certify a civilian radar for the purpose.
      - eru 12y ago
        Unless you spent the money in getting your candidates into senate etc.
        Cthulhu_ 12y ago
        The Senate doesn't vote for the military's acquisition process.
        dragonwriter 12y ago
        The Congress, including the Senate, absolutely does vote on the laws that set the parameters with which the military's acquisition process (among other military policies and processes) must conform.
        bjelkeman-again 12y ago
        And that would keep things on schedule? Have you looked at the US governance system recently? Nothing is on schedule there except the clamour for reelection.
        eru 12y ago
        Senate was just a filler for `important political position that gets to decide stuff'. Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of the American machine.
- jccooper 12y ago
  No mere customer will get the Air Force to replace their ancient and crumbling radars, or, moreover, deal with all the various resource contention issues at the Cape. SpaceX is instead in the process of dealing with the problem in a tractable way: by building their own damn spaceport.

toomuchtodo 12y ago

Literally laughed at "Halt and Catch Fire" acronym.

dragonwriter 12y ago

> How do you schedule a rocket launch when someone else owns the 50-year-old range radar equipment that keeps executing HCF? Recognize that even if you don't own the radar equipment, it is impacting your ability to deliver value, so spend the necessary funds to get them to replace the radar equipment with something that doesn't have that problem.

ceejayoz 12y ago
> Recognize that even if you don't own the radar equipment, it is impacting your ability to deliver value, so spend the necessary funds to get them to replace the radar equipment with something that doesn't have that problem. And then convince the Air Force to certify and let you use your new radar for their payloads.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > And then convince the Air Force to certify and let you use your new radar for their payloads. Well, yeah, which takes more money. I wasn't intending, upthread, to suggest that the route was easy...
  - ceejayoz 12y ago
    > Well, yeah, which takes more money. There may not be any amount of money that'll make the Air Force certify a civilian radar for the purpose.
    - eru 12y ago
      Unless you spent the money in getting your candidates into senate etc.
      - Cthulhu_ 12y ago
        The Senate doesn't vote for the military's acquisition process.
        dragonwriter 12y ago
        The Congress, including the Senate, absolutely does vote on the laws that set the parameters with which the military's acquisition process (among other military policies and processes) must conform.
        bjelkeman-again 12y ago
        And that would keep things on schedule? Have you looked at the US governance system recently? Nothing is on schedule there except the clamour for reelection.
        eru 12y ago
        Senate was just a filler for `important political position that gets to decide stuff'. Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of the American machine.
jccooper 12y ago
No mere customer will get the Air Force to replace their ancient and crumbling radars, or, moreover, deal with all the various resource contention issues at the Cape. SpaceX is instead in the process of dealing with the problem in a tractable way: by building their own damn spaceport.