Lol. It's a fucking space rocket company. I'd be more surprised if there were any purchase orders UNDER $10,000.
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The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Kiroy
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it's almost like the consulting company talked to musk and he paid them to give bezos a bunch of retarded information
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It would be pretty hilarious if they had actually interviewed Musk, he trolled them, and they took him at his word. I've seen dumber things happen in consulting.
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Cybsled
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The biggest take aways are cost controls, attracting top talent because they are getting shit done and innovating, and keeping most stuff in house.
2 of those items are Amazon’s operating practices anyways, so I’m surprised they haven’t taken those to heart. Talent will be harder to get - if you are a young go getter, you’re going to want to be with the company going to the moon and Mars
2 of those items are Amazon’s operating practices anyways, so I’m surprised they haven’t taken those to heart. Talent will be harder to get - if you are a young go getter, you’re going to want to be with the company going to the moon and Mars
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Ukerric
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That's because it's not Amazon. Bezos founded BO as a completely separate entity, and well before Musk founded SpaceX, and the first thing he did was to recruit and put in charge people straight out of classic Aerospace while he was still busy managing Amazon for the next 15 years. His first recruits were people who were managers at Boeing.
Basically, he made a clone of ULA 6 years before ULA was merged. And the ULA-type mentality is nurtured in Cost-Plus contracts ("we don't have customers, we have people who will pay us whatever and whenever we bill them") and monopolies ("of course we're going to get the contract").
Which means that cost control and innovation were never part of the equation. Blue Origin thought for over a decade that they were going to be ULA 2.0. At that point, the corporate culture is baked in, and it won't really be possible to reform.
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Wingz
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NASA to launch mission to deflect an asteroid!
www.dailymail.co.uk
NASA will launch mission to deflect asteroid in November
NASA's mission to deflect an asteroid using a spacecraft is targeting a November launch, as the DART spacecraft will head towards the Didymos binary on November 24 aboard a SpaceX rocket.
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Report: SpaceX to launch at least five back-to-back Crew Dragon missions for NASA
Update: Wasting no time at all, NASA has confirmed the Ars Technica report one day later, announcing that rookie astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada have been reassigned from Boeing Starliner missions to SpaceX’s Crew-5 Crew Dragon launch – currently no earlier than August 2022. Ars...
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jooka
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NASA to launch mission to deflect an asteroid!
NASA will launch mission to deflect asteroid in November
NASA's mission to deflect an asteroid using a spacecraft is targeting a November launch, as the DART spacecraft will head towards the Didymos binary on November 24 aboard a SpaceX rocket.
Sounds like the beginning of a bad ending movie, lol
Ensign: "Admiral, asteroid successfully deflected ten degrees on the vertical and negative five degrees on the horizontal!"
Admiral: "Ensign, you mean positive five degrees? Confirm?"
Ensign: "..."
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Study of prior research suggests there is a swarm of large asteroids hidden in the Taurid complex
A pair of space scientists, one with the University of Antioquia, the other the University of Salento, has found evidence of a swarm of large asteroids hidden in the Taurid complex. Ignacio Ferrín and Vincenzo Orofino have written a paper describing their findings in the journal Planetary and...
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Big Phoenix
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Surprised they didnt change the name of it. Lots of blue hairs and sjws bitching about it being named after Webb a man who supposedly made Hitler look like Jesus.
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Faith
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Yeah, worried is an understatement. Too many moving parts and complex systems to feel safe.
I see 3 major issues in that video alone.
1) Distance from earth. We cant send a crew to replace/clean parts like we have done with Hubble.
2) Must apparently be in constant motion for the mirrors to do work their magic. One broken motor and..... see #1.
3) In part depending on an active cooling system, again see #1.
BTW, why is the US slinging this thing from the EU space launch pad? Not that I mind but it feels like a project I personaly would like to keep "in house" as much as possible, shipping it to a diffrent continent seems like just another risk factor.
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I have no idea what I'm talking about
But I would be betting on orbital dynamics. It's likely more efficient from their based on the path it needs to take
- Equatorial launch makes it easier to get to L2.
- Politics due to EU involvement.
The Launch - Webb/NASA
The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called Webb or JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Webb is the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It studies every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the...
www.jwst.nasa.gov
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