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A comment on Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test. Parent comment

Re:Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test by frakkingcylons on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:02PM (#25369538)
I didn't compare Electron to Falcon 9 or Starship.
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Re:Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test by temporalparts on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:49AM (#25370259)
From the parent post:

> they're now at least a decade behind.

The original claim was that competitors are a decade behind spaceX and Electron's capabilities are comparable to the technology spaceX had a decade ago. The Falcon 9 comparisons are to highlight the decade delta.

edit: grammar

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