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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;If it gets Rocket-4 off the ground ...&quot;

Despite anything that Chris Kemp says, this will be their 2nd biggest challenge.
The biggest challenge will be repeating it, because have already proved themselves unreliable.

As far as I can tell, they have not abandoned the model of rockets made cheap and fast, and launched at a high cadence, as the means of overcoming low quality manufacturing. 

Nor is there any mention, that I can find, of re-usability.

&quot;If Electrons were a Ferrari, Kemp reasoned, he would build Fords.&quot; is a quote from Ashlee Vance&#039;s book (and subsequent documentary When the Heavens Went on Sale/Wild Wild Space).

Kemp had them build Edsels and Pintos, not the GT40s. 

Unless Kemp has hired the rocket world equivalent of Carroll Shelby, I am not expecting much.]]></description>
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<p>Despite anything that Chris Kemp says, this will be their 2nd biggest challenge.<br />
The biggest challenge will be repeating it, because have already proved themselves unreliable.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, they have not abandoned the model of rockets made cheap and fast, and launched at a high cadence, as the means of overcoming low quality manufacturing. </p>
<p>Nor is there any mention, that I can find, of re-usability.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Electrons were a Ferrari, Kemp reasoned, he would build Fords.&#8221; is a quote from Ashlee Vance&#8217;s book (and subsequent documentary When the Heavens Went on Sale/Wild Wild Space).</p>
<p>Kemp had them build Edsels and Pintos, not the GT40s. </p>
<p>Unless Kemp has hired the rocket world equivalent of Carroll Shelby, I am not expecting much.</p>
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