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Falcon 9’s Grounding Ripples Through the Space Industry (payloadspace.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

With a great flight rate comes great responsibility.

This is a really bad look for the rest of the launch industry that isn't able to step up to fill the gap.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bad look? What's the Falcon failure rate at this point?

Now what's the failure rate of any other reusable platform?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bad look for the rest of the industry

The fact that the entire rest of the industry combined can't step up to provide flights is an indicator.

If ULA were to go offline, flights could be moved to other companies and the industry might have a hiccup but would otherwise barely be noticed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Ah, I didn't catch that meaning. My apologies.