SpaceX cleared for US military launches
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#2So really this is a more of necessity not to encourage competition.
They need a replacement for the Russian rocket engines and SpaceX is the only good alternative.
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#3I like the old school dogma underlying the whole thing. Russia is bad, private enterprise is good, the US wants to put weapons in space, and Michael Jackson is rocking the world with Thriller.
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#4I would've preferred if SpaceX didn't become a Defense contract. Now I'm worried about military/NSA influence (in order to get these contracts) spilling over into Elon Musk's satellite Internet business.
Re: SpaceX cleared for US military launches
#5So really this is a more of necessity not to encourage competition. They need a replacement for the Russian rocket engines and SpaceX is the only good alternative.
Competition is about alternatives - the Air Force could have just trusted the Lockheed-Boeing venture to do it. F-35 comes to mind and not in a good way.
Re: SpaceX cleared for US military launches
#6I would've preferred if SpaceX didn't become a Defense contract. Now I'm worried about military/NSA influence (in order to get these contracts) spilling over into Elon Musk's satellite Internet business.
Or battery powered tanks and troop carriers.
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#7I assume this is for the Falcon 9 especially; will they need to certify the Falcon Heavy as well, and will it take as long as the F9 certification?
Re: SpaceX cleared for US military launches
#8So really this is a more of necessity not to encourage competition. They need a replacement for the Russian rocket engines and SpaceX is the only good alternative.
Competition is about alternatives - the Air Force could have just trusted the Lockheed-Boeing venture to do it. F-35 comes to mind and not in a good way.
I'm not seeing the connection to the F-35. I guess you know there was a competition for the right to build the JSF. Both aircraft met all the requirements for the competition. So can you please clarify?
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#9Somewhat ironic that Elon Musk's SpaceX whose ultimate goal is to make life multi-planetary, is now collaborating with agents that may as well be responsible for triggering a Kessler syndrome. Not to mention the fact their business very much implies the termination of human life -- if for the greater good that is left for discussion on a case by case basis.
Re: SpaceX cleared for US military launches
#10I like the old school dogma underlying the whole thing. Russia is bad, private enterprise is good, the US wants to put weapons in space, and Michael Jackson is rocking the world with Thriller.
> Russia is bad
Putin's Russia is bad.