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[Stephen Clark] Here are the reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don’t need to read it. It’s because SpaceX has the cheapest, most reliable and available rocket in the world isn’t it?

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

They do explode reliably.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Falcon 9 Block 5 exploded only like 1 time (if we don’t count the expendable launches)

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