Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  SpaceX has loads of capable engineers. If NASA gets a massive budget increase, they need to draw from that pool of talent.

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• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  SpaceX and Starlink basically have no competition, and if they did, said competitor would also need to be heavily subsidized.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These last few years they’ve had very little successes, but the point is it should stay competitive and not be automatically handed to these doofuses. Even the USSR maintained a competitive rocketry sector.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      SpaceX and starlink have had very little success the last few years? What have you been smoking?!

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Compared to previously SpaceX has been seeing more and more failed launches, Starlink is banned in a number of countries and there are already other low orbit internet satellite providers popping up.

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    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How has spacex had very few successes? Their Falcon 9 rocket is basically operating like clockwork. They launch more rockets than the rest of the world combined.

      The starship failures are higher profile but even those failures are typical when testing new vehicles, especially one as experimental and complex.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They weren’t as typical with previous SpaceX models, Starship is easily their least successful project.

        Since SpaceX is launching large quantities of commercial satellites, big whoop, do you also celebrate when companies buy back stocks?

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NASA hasn’t take the slightest risk since Challenger. They wouldn’t have accomplished 1/20th of the launch capability SpaceX has developed in the last 5 years.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Generally NASA doesn’t “develop” rockets per se, they commission rockets to specification.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s the specification process that’s the thing, nobody there would have gone out on a limb the way SpaceX has with their recovery systems. Look where they are on a shuttle replacement: nowhere.

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