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On 8/29/2020 at 9:30 PM, Lhalo said:

Not sure why they prefer FL to CA. It might be simply the lower latitude. Eventually almost all SpaceX flights will be out of Boca Chica, TX. They recently put out an add to hire a resort builder. I assume that’s because they are looking toward space tourism and not only want to build a space port but a place to view the launches for the general public. We’ll see. 

I believe it's mostly financial. Throw in punishing CA regulations and there you go. It's actually cheaper to send the rocket to Florida by ship and launch from there than it is to launch from Vandenberg. Musk wants to cut costs and the best way to do that long-term is to build your own facilities in a business friendly environment like Texas.

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5 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Meanwhile, opposite of Space X.  ULA is just a mess.  

Delta 4-Heavy launch aborted at T-minus 7 seconds

Ya ULA seems like more of a legacy jobs program than an actual vehicle to space.

That being said SpaceX aborted a launch this morning too. There are currently 3 rockets on launch pads at Cape Canaveral right now. Crazy!

 

 

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1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

Ya ULA seems like more of a legacy jobs program than an actual vehicle to space.

That being said SpaceX aborted a launch this morning too. There are currently 3 rockets on launch pads at Cape Canaveral right now. Crazy!

 

 

 

Yeah, but one of them has it's wheels off, and is sitting in the yard on bricks hoping to be driven again one day.

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2 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

 

Yeah, but one of them has it's wheels off, and is sitting in the yard on bricks hoping to be driven again one day.

redneckrocketsareus.com

i don't know how to make a backwards R so this will have to do.

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On 8/6/2020 at 6:43 PM, Tank said:

It creates lots of new innovations that find their way into society. Simple things like pens that write upside down, Velcro, and Tang (the breakfast drink from the 60s) were all innovations that came from the space program that were practical.  There have also been big things in computers, engineering,and electronics that came from the early missions. I’ll see what else I can find after dinner.

The history of silicon valley owes itself to NASA and the space program.

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Morgan Stanley expects SpaceX will be a $100 billion company thanks to Starlink and Starship

The firm’s new valuation expectation is twice its previous estimate in July, but Jonas said that “quite a lot has changed since we published” that report three months ago. SpaceX has passed a number of milestones in that time, including returning its first NASA astronauts from space successfully, winning hundreds of millions of dollars in Pentagon contracts, launching hundreds more Starlink satellites to orbit to build its global internet network, and conducting two test flights of its next-generation Starship rocket. The company also in August sought $2.1 billion in a new round of equity funding, which valued SpaceX at near $44 billion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/morgan-stanley-spacex-to-be-100-billion-company-due-to-starlink-starship.html

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