SpaceX Launch Update
Pete Lynn wrote:
I think one of the critical lessons from this development has been that
such a low cost launch system must be designed to avoid third party
launch schedule limitations. A serious development needs to be able to
attempt a launch near every day, SpaceX are not managing once a month.
They are now throwing money at the problem to try and compensate - not
good.
It appears more and more likely that commercial launch needs
to decouple from DoD launch sites to become practical. But
SpaceX is, of course, doing most of its launches for DoD, so
the delays are self-inflicted by the customer in that sense. I
wonder who pays for the cost of range delays?
- Ed Kyle
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