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Re:Starship Flight 7 by me_me_me on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:51AM (#42736997)
> SpaceX gets credit and rightly so because they have achieved things which no national space agency nor private company has ever done before

Such as?

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Re:Starship Flight 7 by jbgt on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:53AM (#42737012)
Landing boosters, reducing costs etc etc
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Re:Starship Flight 7 by me_me_me on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:05AM (#42737112)
Is that it? Landing boosters is not saving money as of now. Because a rocket engine is not a rental bike.

Hmmm I wonder if there was a tech that recovered a spacecraft and tried to reuse it to cut costs... hmmm... no, nothing comes to mind

Also SpaceX is charging Nasa more than russians did when they had monopoly over space flights.

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Re:Starship Flight 7 by inemesitaffia on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:31AM (#42737869)
Landing boosters saves money and helps with cadence.

SpaceX is charging NASA less. Even Boeing is charging NASA less than Russia.

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Re:Starship Flight 7 by jve on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:35AM (#42737341)
Maybe this will help you see it: https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/1874191808751972447

The whole world combined VS SpaceX has less mass to orbit.

Either whole nations are not interested in that much mass to orbit or they don't have the capability. Or financial means/incentive to compete against that commercial entity.

But they do and at least in China they start to work on reusable rockets and ULA is for sale because they don't have one.

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Re:Starship Flight 7 by me_me_me on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:57AM (#42737535)
I guess that's an 'achievement'?
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Re:Starship Flight 7 by Albatross9237 on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:00PM (#42740320)
What would you consider an achievement then? The point of a rocket is to deliver mass to space.
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Re:Starship Flight 7 by me_me_me on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:12PM (#42741435)
Nobody credits boeing with a achievement of caring most people in planes. We credit Wright brother with creating first airplane.

Cargo rockets is to elo is an old tech, a participation award for you and your convincing arguments (you and you ilk - producing numerous 'achievements' called 'etc. etc.').

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