Comments on: SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:59:32 +0000

It shows you just how rare Elon is.
Investors run from aerospace due to up-front costs…and most independently rich don’t care for aerospace…or have Elon’s engineering chops.

Outside of him, other start-ups just get told seven different kinds of “no.”

Just ask Gary Hudson.

For years, I have heard folks rail against airlines.

Then all I heard was the market will solve this, etc.

Read the book FREE FLIGHT about what happened to Vern Rayburn and the VLJ/air taxi model.

The large drones look to renew this idea.

We will see.

Computer start-ups just need code monkeys…pizzas…and Funko pops.

I imagine an aviation start up who used a venture capitalist’s money to get tooling, an engineer…and hanger space having this conversation with the VC on his visit:

“Where’s my airplane?”

What do you mean ‘where’s my airplane?’

“What went with all that money?”

Here it is–

“I don’t see anything but jigs and empty hanger space! I’m pulling the plug.”

Lots of little Jack Welsh’s for every big one.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:43:33 +0000

In reply to john hare. John Hare: Actually, SpaceX has been ahead of the rest of the world for most of the time for the last several months. In fact, the tie on this date is the exception, not the rule. For most of the last two months SpaceX has led.

By: john hare

john hare — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:29:29 +0000

Amazing that it took until the eighth month of the year for SpaceX to even be tied by the rest of the world. And even get ahead for a few hours yesterday. Reading occasional complaints about SpaceX monopoly should read more about the competition not doing their job. The legacy companies and the ones they acquired had over 4 decades experience before SpaceX was founded, and a half century experience before Falcon9 flight one.