Re:Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:14PM
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> the DARPA Falcon project was awarded in 2003
You’re right. I ignored those because at $500k they’re immaterial, particularly against the $100mm it took to develop Falcon 1, but sure. The Falcon grants preceded COTS and Falcon (the rocket) being named.
Against that I put literally every engineer at SpaceX in 2003 giving zero shits about that grant other than as a funding source. Because it wasn’t a strategic guide. And it was for building a missile, not an interceptor.
You’re right. I ignored those because at $500k they’re immaterial, particularly against the $100mm it took to develop Falcon 1, but sure. The Falcon grants preceded COTS and Falcon (the rocket) being named.
Against that I put literally every engineer at SpaceX in 2003 giving zero shits about that grant other than as a funding source. Because it wasn’t a strategic guide. And it was for building a missile, not an interceptor.