Comments on: SpaceX launches another 48 Starlink satellites

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:16:55 +0000

I want to see Musk and Nick Saban in the same room. Zuckerberg can push off.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 04:36:05 +0000

It took Musk over 15 years to make that talent.

I do not know exactly how he made his team but I bet it was thew same way everyone else who rises to the top does.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 03:15:45 +0000

Pzatchok….

So Musk can beat their’n with his’n and his’n with their’n 😀

By: Ray Van Dune

Ray Van Dune — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:11:52 +0000

pzatchok, I don’t have the knowledge to define SpaceX’s specific team-building practices. As you do, thanks for the information. Our points boil down to the same thing – SpaceX has done what everyone else talks about and invested in the highest quality team. And it is paying off.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 06:35:50 +0000

Space X didn’t hire all the best talent. They were already working for the other guys.

They hired good talent and worked it and trained it until they became the talent everyone else wants.

Its like a sports team. They hired good mangers and good coaches then found good solid talent to train up into what they needed.
Now the team is great and everyone wants them.

By: Ray Van Dune

Ray Van Dune — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 01:43:14 +0000

Not only are Russian rockets off the table, but so are the relatively high performance and reliable Russian engines.

Of course that was the trap that ULA walked into – use cheap Russian engines until they were illegal, then use vaporware BO engines, then when SpaceX had hired all the hot talent, screw up the update of the ultra-reliable Centaur into something that blowed up real good!

Meanwhile, SpaceX is learning to build the world’s best engine at rate!

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:01:18 +0000

“GRIFTING CON MAN MUSKS FAILS AGAIN” – says MSN and CNN

By: Richard Malcolm

Richard Malcolm — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:11:52 +0000

Interestingly, both the Wall Street Journal and Space News have stories up today about the de facto monopoly SpaceX now enjoys, what with all of its primary competitors in the US, Europe and Japan caught between two stools of retired legacy rockets and delayed replacement ones, and the Russians no longer available.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Now Has a ‘De Facto’ Monopoly on Rocket Launches
The company’s rockets are ferrying astronauts, launching satellites and dominating any competition
By Micah Maidenberg
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-now-has-a-de-facto-monopoly-on-rocket-launches-3c34f02e

Europe leans on SpaceX to bridge launcher gap
By Jeff Foust
https://spacenews.com/europe-leans-on-spacex-to-bridge-launcher-gap/

Kind of wild how it has all worked out: every competitor stumbling, just as SpaceX reaches unprecedented launch cadence.