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TheawesomeQ t1_j9kr0nq wrote

Reply to comment by Topsyye in Starship greenlit for launch after static fire test by DevilsRefugee

I thought they'd do this launch a year ago

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Topsyye t1_j9l2fzx wrote

Yeah me too, pretty clear they still had a lot of problems to sort out but they say “soon tm” now

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SpicyFlaps t1_j9mneoy wrote

You can predictably triple any timeline Elon says

Edit: Who would downvote this truth bomb?! Simps

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Bigjoemonger t1_j9okit7 wrote

Yeah but that tripled time is still faster than anybody else.

Read some of the reviews for working at spacex from former employees. Talking about being worked around the clock.

Elon has stated before if they're going to be successful in their goals then they need to work like there's an asteroid headed towards earth and the only way to stop it is this rocket.

It took NASA over a decade to build SLS which was basically just recycled Apollo. SpaceX is designing an entirely new launch system.

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robertojh_200 t1_j9orw1n wrote

That’s not detached. That’s the reality of rocket science. Delays are baked into the DNA of the process. At the very moment that he made his comments, they probably were a few months away, but then something broke, or the numbers stopped adding up, or something exploded. SpaceX is still the fastest moving launch company in the world even with the delays.

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DrunkensteinsMonster t1_j9ot3wy wrote

No. It is detached. Look at the sum of work over the last two years, most of it was always planned. He was saying they were a couple months away when they had scarcely fired any engines on super heavy. He claimed they were a couple months away before they even stacked it, which they had to do with a crane, because the launch tower wasn’t even done yet. That’s coming up on two years ago.

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