Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by nraynaud on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:56PM
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Why did they make a contract contingent on factors outside the contractant's influence? that seems counterintuitive.
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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by zeeveener on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:57PM
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Based on what others have posted, it's not necessarily a clause like, "If you launch successfully, we go ahead with the deal", but rather a clause like, "If the satellite is operational within X amount of time, we will go ahead with the deal."
This explosion probably put them way past the X amount of time so the deal would fall through.