throwaway238492

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   by throwaway238492 2y ago

   >> You’re skipping the $400mm NASA COTS contract that came a year earlier. You have it backwards, the DARPA Falcon project was awarded in 2003 (before Falcon rocket was even named!) COTS was 2005, and in no small part due to Griffin a
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   by throwaway238492 2y ago

   Wasn't that the DC-X? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
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   by throwaway238492 2y ago

   Watch that Heritage Foundation video above (^youtube), it's only a couple minutes. The full report is at https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/time-new-missile-def... Terrence J O'Shaughnessy also runs
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   by throwaway238492 2y ago

   The Griffin connections go back to SpaceX's founding (they examined ICBMs together in Russia and even presented together at Mars Society). SpaceX was founded months after SDI's main barrier, the ABMT Treaty, was withdrawn from by
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   by throwaway238492 2y ago

   The key link between Starlink and SDI seems to be Mike Griffin and all his connections with Elon, https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin Also recent funding for LEO-based missile interception, mostly Republican
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   by throwaway238492 2y ago

   Starlink's history is rooted in the U.S. DoD's Strategic Defense Initiative, https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles/112522370451697720