In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.
So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.
But… yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.
And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.
It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.
as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.
Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.
He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject… he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.
In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.
So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.
But… yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.
And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.
It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.
as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.
Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.
He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject… he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.
This is what I was claiming, too.
You remind me of the recent declaration about launching data servers in orbit.