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Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere (www.nature.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The alternatives are setting up SoEs to build your rockets, or putting people responsible to the state and not the shareholders on the board to ensure the CEO is similarly minded.

There is a core conflict of interest in that every dollar of profit these companies make is a dollar that isn't going into building the rocket or lowering the cost.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

But SpaceX has literally lowered the cost of a launch by an order of magnitude. They also are flying one of the most successful rockets ever flown.