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Jeep's first EV for the US could be delayed if it's not 'perfect quality' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

an electric Renegade priced under $25,000

That's much more interesting than the $70k+ suburban grocery hauler.

[Scott Manley] Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Companies like this make me wish I had the gall to sell snake oil to venture capitalists.

What a classic recipe. It's a YC company with a McKinsey CEO.

Starliner returns to Earth uncrewed in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I dunno. A lot of people messed up. Across the board. A successful landing doesn't change any of the previous failures that led to NASA pulling the plug.

Flight software, test planning, program management, root cause analysis, systems engineering / requirements management, material sourcing, simulations, etc.

Starliner CFT Return Thread in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The thruster firing show is fun

Starliner CFT Return Thread in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Good riddance!

NASA Stands Down from October Launch for ESCAPADE to Mars in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Welp. Hopefully Blue keeps the pedal to the metal and still launches something this year. I feel bad for the Rocket Lab team.

Blue Origin racing to meet tight launch window for first New Glenn mission in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not if the probes can't slow down on the other end! Their delta V is important, too.

Anyone planning to play along? in c/spaceflightmemes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What about call Boeing a "committed partner" after they fail at something?

Anyone planning to play along? in c/spaceflightmemes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

NASA should put out an RFI now for the next gen of commercial crew going to commercial stations in 2030+. Given that Blue Origin is working on a capsule and Rocket Lab teased a capsule concept for Neutron, I'm not convinced that Dreamchaser would win, but it would be great to see another round of actual competition.

Relativity Space has gone from printing money and rockets to doing what, exactly? in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

But if their initial engineering and infrastructure investments were into ~~welding~~ 3d printing that turned out to be a dead end...

NASA moving ahead with Europa Clipper launch in October in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Radiation shmadiation

Hopefully someone FOIAs the test results. The Starliner saga has left NASA comms with a black eye, so I'm worried that they put a big "use-as-is" stamp on this issue and are plowing forward with additional risk.

Relativity Space has gone from printing money and rockets to doing what, exactly? in c/spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oof. They went from being a dubious tech startup to... BO2 without the infinite money drip?

I'm glad they're still working on reuse, but I'm not sure what differentiates them anymore vs SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, and Stoke. All 5 of them are working on (at least) 1st stage reuse. And they all make their own engines.

Relativity was very well funded based on what turned out to be snake oil. There are a lot of armchair engineers fist pumping about being right about that. Now that they're indistinguishable from other companies, why would that investment continue? There are still too many companies working on launch.