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ULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

People love bringing up that Starship was supposed to be doing round trips to the Moon and Mars by now, but when has anything space ever been on budget, in time, and working perfectly on the first try? Every new launch vehicle takes longer and more money than initial optimistic predictions state. Damn near every probe and telescope is years over deadlines and often a significant percentage of first estimates over budget.