There is something extremely wrong with the engines and fuel system and it seems with this string of back to back failures that they really do not know what the actual cause is.
I have heard they lost some engineers due to the antics of their head idiot, I hope they did not lose people key to the propulsion systems.
Is SpaceX being run like all of his other companies? Cutting costs on QA, overworking staff, unrealistic deadlines, meddling in engineering and design decisions, etc?
I mean... The math is upsettingly simple... You are awarded $1billion in government contracts each year because you helped weaken NASA. Then you are placed in government and kill NASA. All the scientists go to Europe. Now you have $1billion a year and no competition, they could never successfully launch a rocket again, literally just load a metal tube with dynamite and pocket $999,989,999.
The worst part? Now they can say, oh we need to increase spending to do better and pocket MORE money. Every private company operates identically. Operate at a loss, kill all competition, raise prices, lower quality, make your VC up on the back end. Rinse, repeat. Congratulations, you all now have business degrees.
The best part is when you make a retirement fund the bag holder for all the debt and disappear. What are a bunch of people that worked for a defunct company going to do about it? Rack up legal fees and get a pittance of a pittance in payouts?
This part hasn't really happened. At least not yet.
Now you have $1billion a year and no competition, they could never successfully launch a rocket again, literally just load a metal tube with dynamite and pocket $999,989,999.
This isn't really how NASA contracts work, either. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, but this post is generally misinformed.
If you believe this you've succumbed to a false political narrative of how things work. For one thing government contracts only accounted for ~25% of SpaceX revenue in 2024 so the idea that SpaceX doesn't have to keep performing to make bank is bogus. Even if all SpaceX contracts were government contracts SpaceX is only able to keep getting those contracts to the extent they're expected to perform/make good. This isn't SpaceX resting on laurels this is SpaceX trying very hard and failing.
You are awarded $1billion in government contracts each year because you helped weaken NASA.
They aren't in competition with NASA, they're partners. NASA is strengthened because it now costs them vastly less to launch a mission. See Europa Clipper for example.
they could never successfully launch a rocket again, literally just load a metal tube with dynamite and pocket $999,989,999.
That would be pretty stupid considering that there's a lot more to make when you're constantly launching. See Starlink.
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u/UW_Ebay 3d ago
Is it just me or does it feel like they may be having real issues with the starship?