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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] 14 points 1 week ago

Don't need to read, it's fucking corruption... I'll read it anyway just in case I am wrong

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 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] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

SpaceX also has the ability to launch from the west coast. ULA lost a couple of launches this year because their west coast pad is not ready yet.

[–] [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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it nepotism? It's nepotism isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Technically, it’s cronyism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. Yes it is.