What Elon Musk would do over in the Starship design
Irene Klotz: In hindsight, if you were doing this all over again is there anything you would’ve done to make the path shorter? Elon Musk: […]
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Economics doesn’t describe the reality of production
The revenue or cost of each additional unit is called the margin. Economists assume that corporations seek to maximize profit, which occurs at the unit […]
Is it an embarrassment how the US Air Force treated SpaceX?
I’ll tell you, what SpaceX had to do to effectively do business with the United States Air Force embarrassed us in public. No service secretary […]
How SpaceX does software for 9 vehicles with only 50 developers — and gov’t requiring 50x the staff
The biggest gap in the government today is enterprise services. You go to big companies, they have infrastructure cloud team, they have a platform team, […]
How cost-plus contracting slowed space technologies, and the shift back to mission-based specs
It starts back in the 1960s with the Apollo program being successful. The way that space used to work back then was that everything was […]
130 companies competing in small-launch
Here’s part of an interesting interview with Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck on ArsTechnica. What do you think about the competition? SpaceX is entering the smallsat […]
The value of NASA contracts to SpaceX for launch
Again if you’ll compare the amounts Space[X] is receiving vs values to other launch providers for similar goals — they are always on the low […]