Comment by notahacker
24 days ago
> most of your market is controlled by aging men in suits
that um... doesn't sound like the space market. The engineers involved won't care about whether it's big corporate speak or GPT-ish gushing about "nailing it", they'll just want to understand if its a suitable bus for their mission concept and how well it works. It's actually more candid than your average blog in that respect.
It’s not the engineers who have the money or the control of company decisions. The engineers might make recommendations to their PMs and director of whatever program, but when considered against the myriad other bus options in LEO, the decision makers might be scared off by this writing and choose a less risky bus and accept the worse imaging performance or performance degradation in whatever other payload they integrate.
Bus options are a lot thinner in VLEO, and I don't think even decision makers purchasing something utterly generic are scanning company blogs looking for excessive use of slang and GPT sentence patterns as a reason to veto technical decisions. We're talking about an industry in which executives generally are engineers and often love flaunting their nerdiness and the most successful player is also the world's biggest social media troll. The US defense lexicon they'll have to master to bid on that type of contract is way more cringeworthy than bro-speak anyway...