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jmowreader

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17. On a positive note...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:18 PM
15 hrs ago

They seem to have fixed the problems their first-stage engine sequencer had. On their first launch, a lot of the motors on the first stage weren't firing, but in this one they're all lit up.

I think the biggest problem they're having is they refuse to learn from the history of the rocket business. Everyone else can invent new rockets that don't blow up because they apply the lessons from the old ones that did blow up to the new ones they make. SpaceX "goes their own way" and scatters rocket parts all over the ocean for the first few launches they make.

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