• nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    NASA does not build it’s own rockets (anymore) they make the payloads. NASA will never make rockets as good/cheap as a companies like ULA and SpaceX.

    Take a look at the cluster fuck that is the SLS if you want an example

      • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        SpaceX can make the payloads, and they already do in the form of starlink.

        NASA carries out research/experiments something that spaceX probably doesn’t want to compete in since for the most part it does not pay

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        2 months ago

        Uh, basically no.

        NASA has experiments to run, spaceX has no idea what science NASA is interested in doing. So having SpaceX make the payload doesn’t really make a lot of sense.