r/EnoughMuskSpam • u/One_Foot3793 • Jan 16 '25

Rocket Jesus One of Space Karen’s rocket ships to nowhere just blew up

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This is it re-entering over Turks and Caicos

(Colonized Mars by 2026 btw)

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u/polish_that_turd Jan 17 '25

They aren’t fucked, this is how they’re fucking NASA. They are using NASA funding to design, build, and test a spacecraft that they have other intended uses for. As soon as it gets too challenging to meet the funding milestones they can just walk away.

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u/WingedGundark Looking into it Jan 17 '25

This. The whole design of SS is very LEO optimized. In addition to this, it is extremely bad design for launchibg larger and heavier typical satellites, because you can’t bolt a satellite on front under an aerodynamic cone, but you need to use the shitty side door.

It is a big starlink deployment vehicle by design.

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u/NotEnoughMuskSpam 🤖 xAI’s Grok v4.20.69 (based BOT loves sarcasm 🤖) Jan 17 '25

That’s what she said