minus-squaregolden_retriever@lemmy.worldtoEnough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•FACT: Operating Starlink in Ukraine costs Elon $100 million [1]. FACT: The USGOV only gave SpaceX $3 million for equipment sent to Ukraine [2].linkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhy is the government buying launches a bad thing? SpaceX provides a service that they want. The money would just have gone to Lockheed and Boeing otherwise linkfedilink
golden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago2005, SpaceX told to GTFO by NASA and USAF. Did they give up? NO! They built an entirely new launchpad from scratch at the Kwajalein Atoll. That's how Elon works😎plus-squarelemmy.worldimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down112
arrow-up1-10arrow-down1image2005, SpaceX told to GTFO by NASA and USAF. Did they give up? NO! They built an entirely new launchpad from scratch at the Kwajalein Atoll. That's how Elon works😎plus-squarelemmy.worldgolden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
golden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSpaceX Crew Dragon, 🇺🇸🦅 America's ONLY spacecraft capable of carrying people 🦅💪plus-squarelemmy.worldimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down110
arrow-up1-8arrow-down1imageSpaceX Crew Dragon, 🇺🇸🦅 America's ONLY spacecraft capable of carrying people 🦅💪plus-squarelemmy.worldgolden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
golden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDid you know that Raptor V3, with a thrust of 269 tons, has the highest thrust to weight ratio of any engine ever?plus-squarelemmy.worldimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down18
arrow-up1-7arrow-down1imageDid you know that Raptor V3, with a thrust of 269 tons, has the highest thrust to weight ratio of any engine ever?plus-squarelemmy.worldgolden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
golden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDoing what everyone (even NASA!) considered impossibleplus-squarelemmy.worldimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down18
arrow-up1-7arrow-down1imageDoing what everyone (even NASA!) considered impossibleplus-squarelemmy.worldgolden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
golden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSpaceX outclasses every launch provider in the world combinedplus-squarelemmy.worldimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down16
arrow-up1-5arrow-down1imageSpaceX outclasses every launch provider in the world combinedplus-squarelemmy.worldgolden_retriever@lemmy.world to Elon Musk Ws@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Why is the government buying launches a bad thing? SpaceX provides a service that they want. The money would just have gone to Lockheed and Boeing otherwise