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samrusyesterday at 9:46 PM4 repliesview on HN

Cost decreases with scale. Spacex was also wildly expensive, it grew up thanks to government assistance


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hparadizyesterday at 11:16 PM

Except for the fact that SpaceX had a hard time getting any contracts at first because they were all going to Boeing and Lockheed Martin since the 1990s and even when SpaceX came to the market they had to compete at first with ULA and fact that they made it cheaper by orders by magnitude. Except for the fact that Musk almost went personally bankrupt trying to get SpaceX off the ground. Except for all those facts yea sure maybe... haha nope you're still wrong.

teklayesterday at 9:57 PM

> it grew up thanks to government assistance

Please give an example of gov assistance that was not a open contract to every private launch company in the US

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holodukeyesterday at 9:49 PM

No because of reduction of bureaucracy. ESA is the prime example of 1 engineer to 50 managers culture.

Robotbeatyesterday at 9:55 PM

This is an inaccurate simplification