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SpaceX Begging Feds To Ground Apple-Funded Rival's Satellites (www.jalopnik.com)
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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 266 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

> FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
> Musk guts the FAA
> FAA no longer stopping rockets
> Musk decries nobody will stop other people's rockets

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 92 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

SpaceX biggest competitor is NASA/JPL Musk guts NASA

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 weeks ago

Because we live in clown world

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They both shoot rockets up in the sky. Our government could pay NASA to do it, or pay Space X.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NASA does not build it's own rockets (anymore) they make the payloads. NASA will never make rockets as good/cheap as a companies like ULA and SpaceX.

Take a look at the cluster fuck that is the SLS if you want an example

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can Space X make the payloads?

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

SpaceX can make the payloads, and they already do in the form of starlink.

NASA carries out research/experiments something that spaceX probably doesn't want to compete in since for the most part it does not pay

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh, basically no.

NASA has experiments to run, spaceX has no idea what science NASA is interested in doing. So having SpaceX make the payload doesn't really make a lot of sense.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So it sounds like they are codependent at this point. The bigger the nasa budget the better for space X.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, that's always been the case. That's literally spaceX's primary job, putting things in space for NASA. It's the same for every launch provider in the US.

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Federal funding for space exploration?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

->Musk's team launches the most expensive firework ever blowing up and disrupting air traffic and destroying the environment again for the eighth time