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Old October 6th 18, 05:36 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Op-ed campaign smearing SpaceX uncovered

Jeff Findley wrote on Sat, 6 Oct 2018
09:01:36 -0400:

In article ,
says...

On 2018-10-05 07:29, Jeff Findley wrote:

Could be Boeing behind this. They've done some very shady things in the
past.



Interesting timing. SpaceX is about to lanmd a Falcon9 at Vandenburg, a
sign that SpaceX is gaining credibility in the military market where
Boeing thought it was invincible.


Actually the original "editorials" came out before "load and go" was
approved by NASA. This is investigative reporting on the fact that the
same article appeared in several newspapers in clearly targeted areas.
In other words, it was a smear campaign to try to get people to call
their representatives and complain about SpaceX.


It didn't help their credibility any when it was discovered that the
guy who supposedly wrote the articles had never heard of them. That's
why they had to trace the real source and find that it was a PR firm
that represented, among others, Boeing as one of their biggest
customers.


You know, like how Boeing ended up "winning" the latest military tanker
campaign.


Boeing has had three big wins lately (within the last couple of
weeks). There's speculation that on at least one of them they grossly
underbid on the assumption they'll make it back by charging extra for
sustainment and upgrades.


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