Comment on Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites
Vub@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why the hell would they voluntarily give a deal to a well known con man/scammer? Do they not read the news? This is a pretty big deal so the decision makes them look really bad and incompetent.
tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SpaceX launches rockets multiple times per week (just here in Florida) at a great price and has an almost unbelievable success record. Second place isn’t even close.
Elon Musk is a nut job, but for anyone that needs to put anything in orbit SpaceX is really the best option.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As I understand it, It’s also the company he had the least control of.
Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I personally think that it is incredibly irresponsible to give musk any control over the deployment of critical infrastructure after his stunts in Ukraine. What guarantees do we have that he is not backdooring these satellites while they are in his posession so that he can shutdown Galileo on a whim in the same way he did with starlink?
Vub@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hmm, I don’t know, all his companies are just utter scams so I don’t understand why anyone would trust them with anything.
youtu.be/ErDuVomNd9M
(Plus that entire channel)