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28 days agoYeah, now that we know Starlink is led by a nazi, it changes from “a good idea to fund the Starship program” to “a means of controlling people, killing the net neutrality, and giving even more spying capabilities to the US military”. The nail in the coffin for me was when I learned that a senior SpaceX employee (who joined in 2003) was actively taking part in the DOGE thing. Looks like SpaceX might be rotten at its core too, and this is very very sad to learn.
Disappointing results to say the least. From an external point of view, it looks like SpaceX hasn’t learned the lessons from the previous flight (even though we can’t be sure it’s the same kind of issue). Something seems really wrong with Starship V2.
Now, I’m thinking there is a decent chance they will keep that bad trajectory (pun intended) and try to launch the next starship soonish instead of doing a very careful review.
I would be really sad a few year ago, but given the nazi CEO, my excitement has plummeted. But I already ranted about that on r/spacex (even though my message got removed by the moderators).