Re:Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
by melling on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:43PM
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That’s why I’ve been arguing for over a decade that we should use more robotics and unmanned missions.
I remember someone on HN telling me several years ago that Virgin Galactic would be back quickly.
In the 60s, they were pushing to get things out and accepted risk levels that today we would consider intolerable.
Today we've developed a cost-plus contracting approach plus insane safety and success standards that mean it is almost impossible to actually get anything done. With one notable exception - SpaceX.
Just throwing money into Boeing and Lockheed these days would generate profits for them, but not a lot of science for us. We need to change culture as well.