SHE'S GONNA BLOW!

nasa also inflates their budgets to ensure they don't end up getting budget cuts given the commies in the US gov couldn't give a shit about funding space exploration, they're too busy funding nogs

they're actively searching for ways to cut the budget to nasa and always have been

>nasa also inflates their budgets to ensure they don't end up getting budget cuts
and elon musk hides his true budget and sells rocket at a loss, truly he is the opposite of NASA

that's somewhat to be expected for a space exploration company in its early stages where risk is high and contracts to get things going are needed to help offset much of the production costs; kinda like most companies that start off by hoarding debt but under the impression that one day they might actually be profitable and capable of paying it back

Finally a quality thread. Rolling for some explosions.

Hydrogen leak at the quick disconnect.

>kinda like most companies that start off by hoarding debt but under the impression that one day they might actually be profitable and capable of paying it back
the difference is that those countries do it legally and openely with transparency while elon is being a snake about it just to maximize the hype around him and the ammount of funding he gets

Isn't that like the practice demo construction version?

as much as i hate reddit willy wonka, it doesn't surprise me; the few that've gone public aren't doing all that great, and going public also means you have a fuck ton of investment banks that end up pulling the strings and choosing changes/developments that ultimately cripple things in favour of making a quick buck

>Starshit
>frequently explosed and loses parts
>BUT ITS SOO HYPE AND COOL AND SO CHEAP
Sounds shit

> Even the fueling was a failure

>as much as i hate reddit willy wonka, it doesn't surprise me; the few that've gone public aren't doing all that great, and going public also means you have a fuck ton of investment banks that end up pulling the strings and choosing changes/developments that ultimately cripple things in favour of making a quick buck
I honestly didn't care for his antics until he started with his starlink spam (it's a total scam, people did the maths, the entire planned network of 12k satelites could at best give a few hundred thousand internet connections, and would have terrible coverage)

while in practice just filling low earth orbit with useless debris, ruining earth based astronomy, and lying about having put them in a low orbit where they would decay quickly (the put starlink at 440km above sea level, that's between 800 and 3000 years to naturally fall down to earth, if any of them malfunction or cant be manually deorbited for any reason we're fucked)

because to me, it's fine if you have a guy who scams idiots and redditors, it's their money, it's the USA, it's their future, I really don't care, but turning low earth orbit into a collision field just to make a quick buck is crossing the line, it's china tier nigger behavior, reminds me of when they did a missile test that added half of the small debris we currently have in orbit

Amercians cant even bring people in ISS.
Elon Musk still buys his rocket parts from Ukraine. Remember a year or two ago americans was bragging about finally building a rocket for ISS? It was a rocket that was build by ukrainians and sold to Musk which slapped NASA logo on it.

>being this uninformed
I don't even want to take the time to educate you because you'll just ignore it.
>reddit willy Wonka
They've been hating him extremely ever since he started talking about buying Twitter, and even before.
Yes, they're being intentionally deceptive. The ESA french shill pops up in every space thread.

Dude what the fuck are you talking about. The engines that ULA bought? Or the Antares ones from Northrop? None of those are SpaceX, who make every major and most minor components in house. Seriously inform yourself.

Starlink naturally decays within just a couple of years from 440km. And there's no stats on active connection capabilities. Quit pulling numbers out of your ass.