alt Hacker NewsNASA didn't build this, Lockheed Martin and their subcontractors did. Articles and headlines like this make people think that NASA does a lot more than they actually do. This is like a CEO claiming credit for everything a company does.
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jakeinspace • today at 4:24 AM
True, but BFS was mainly done in-house. Source: my best friend and I worked on some parts of it.
adrian_b • today at 2:39 AM
Lockheed Martin and their subcontractors did the implementation.
We do not know how much of the high-level architecture of the system has been specified by NASA and how much by Lockheed Martin.
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colechristensen • today at 4:36 AM
Eh, in these kinds of subcontractor relationships there is a lot of work and communication on both sides of the table.
Sebguer • today at 2:36 AM
will nobody think of the megacorps!!!
fleroviumna • today at 12:44 PM
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therobots927 • today at 5:23 AM
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Nice “well, actually”. I’m sure Lockheed were building this quad-redundant, radiation-hardened PowerPC that costs millions of dollars and communicates via Time-Triggered Ethernet anyway, whether NASA needed one or not.