Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites
futurism.com
Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.

After giving in to Putin/Xi’s demands to not provide starlink internet service over Taiwan, DOD officials are growing nervous about trusting Elon’s Space company with our national secrets

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    2·
    21 days ago

    Compairing SpaceX and Boeing is wrong when talking about savings.

    Compare a SpaceX launch to a Shuttle launch yo be more accurate, and don’t forget the inflation

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 days ago

      Damn, we don’t have enough zeros for that. That’s more like the Russian fine against Bozos

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
      11·
      21 days ago

      There is an important fact about the Space Shuttle: it doesn’t exist anymore. Even if it was cheaper - which it wasn’t - it wouldn’t have meant much today, because today all other existing options are much more expensive. I’m comparing options we have today, and more importantly comparing to the option SpaceX moved the government off of.

      If NASA brings back the space shuttle and it’s cheaper than SpaceX then amazing, let’s go. But they didn’t (because it wouldn’t have been cheaper).