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Comment Re:FCC License in Jeopardy (Score 1) 47

There's a reason why Amazon bought the initial token 3 flight from SpaceX a couple of years back. That and the possibility of investor lawsuit over self dealing with anyone but SpaceX prior to that purchase. Meanwhile Blue Origin is grounded until the FAA investigation is over and they need to rebuild the launch pad. They have to demonstrate to the FCC that they made best effort to satisfy the launching of the satellite. They got their extension.

Comment Re:Recovery time of "several months to three years (Score 1) 77

NASA will have to throw significant amount of money to SpaceX, Northrup Grumman or Boeing to make an adopter to dock to Soviet Standardized Vehicle Port Zvezda has. They also need to figure how to transfer hypergolic propellant from the vehicle to Zvezda. Both are non-trivial amount of redesign and fab.

Comment Re:Does not appear to be a seizure (Score 1) 23

Not the first time government did something to catch cash transaction for tax dodging purpose. I remember there was a case where the government rebalanced their currency and force EVERYONE to take their cash money and exchange them for the new one (the old one will become worthless). This would also temporarily catch tax dodgers who cannot account for why they have so much cash. That of course did not last as the subject goes right back to using only cash or other equivalent.

Comment Re:Lack of information.... (Score 1) 95

It's a test flight. They have to test out a lot of things. It's interesting that they don't make the same mistake twice. Flight 7-9 are all partial failures due to different issues. They fix the issue that caused the uncontrollable spin for Flight 9, so they can finally do the tests they intended to do. Flight 11 is probably the last V2 iteration of the program, and onto V3.

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