Comment by d_silin
13 hours ago
Very unfortunate, but strategically this changes nothing for US spaceflight. If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.
13 hours ago
Very unfortunate, but strategically this changes nothing for US spaceflight. If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.
Blue Origin is challenging SpaceX - they are not the incumbent. I'm not sure how you can say that SpaceX will increase dominance despite this.
One can be the dominant player in a field and still increase dominance.
SpaceX will increase the lead from all potential competitors even further.
It's a static fire test. There weren't any payloads inside, this isn't very bad PR.
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Unless the comment was edited, the person you replied to never said anything about "despite"?
Blue Origin are challenging SpaceX about as much as I’m challenging Michael Jordan.
Sure we’re playing the same game, but the divide is enormous
Please look at total mass launched to space by SpaceX vs the rest of the world combined. They are the most incumbent launcher in history.
Unless you're talking about moon landers specifically.
Anyway, competition is good and this is a bummer.
it'll probably be a favorable event for SpaceX's IPO.
Surely not as favorable for the IPO as SpaceX’s own recent explosion and multiple engine failures?
Blowing up on the pad is incredibly worse from a design data collection perspective, a risk to life perspective, and a downstream impact to future launches perspective (nobody can use that site for a couple of months).
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If anything their one engine out unexpected but successful test boosts their position a bit.
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The entire point of SpaceX’s recent launch was an explosion. They were aiming for that outcome. They wanted that outcome.
The fact they did it with pinpoint accuracy even with engine issues and an in tact heat shield is a monumental success for a test flight.
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