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While I think Sierra Space would have done better than Boeing, they seem closer culturally, organizationally, operationally, etc to Lockheed than they are to SpaceX.

That's awesome. Venus doesn't get the attention it deserves.

He added that early assessments by the Space Force show that, had the same booster anomaly happened on either of the first two military missions slated to fly on Vulcan, the rocket could have still achieved an on-target orbit, with performance margin.

Well damn, ok. That'll shut me up a little.

It might have been hit by something. Or it could have had a failure and blown itself up. The history of these buses and some previous observations on this satellite, plus Boeing being involved, makes me inclined to think it blew itself up.

At least their stream is in 4k on YouTube, though

You can still do better than human drivers wiith only visible light cameras by using more of them at different heights and angles than a person could pay attention to. I think mixing in other sensors and data sources would still be even better, but they're already getting more data than a human could.

Cheap upmass should make it easier to add more radiation shielding and redundancy without as much of a cost hit.

I'm really hoping Rivian can pull off mass production of the R2 and R3.

I'd do 4 orders of magnitude less and take $4.4 million. That's immediate FatFIRE, never need to work again kind of money.

Hopefully they can recover the center core during the Griffin launch. It would be great to finally bring one home.

Does anyone actually think it'll fly in 2025 at all at this point?

Throwing the lander and suits for A3 under the bus really distracts from how badly Orion and EGS are doing. This is absolutely pathetic work by Jacobs on the ground systems.