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> The SLS had numerous technical issues throughout 2022

And then it launched in 2022. The point if you look at a breakdown of days late the percentage looks very different than if you count moving the launch date back 1 week just as important as moving it back a year.

Talking about number of delays is kind of silly when there’s orders of magnitude between the longest delay and the shortest.

> from 2021

The specific example I was thinking was more recent than the 2021 tweet. He’s made the comment several times in various contexts, thus people being reasonably concerned about the companies finances.




Well, failing to launch at a scheduled time and long term general delays are two different aspects of failure from my perspective. One is an inability to meet short term goals, and the other is an inability to meet long term goals. I'd consider it to be akin to something like tactics vs strategy - and both reflect upon a company in different ways.

As for the SpaceX thing, this is just concern trolling. Nobody has any genuine concern about SpaceX's financial stability. This also includes Elon, but I also think he's focused on the longterm - and in such a frame of thought considering black swan events is critical. In the worst case scenario he could take SpaceX public and raise hundreds of billions, but that would also likely greatly imperil their overall mission. There's no money [for now] to be made colonizing Mars, and so making oneself beholden to shareholders in inconducive to progress.

I'd also add that this is even more true when we're comparing them to companies like Boeing. Boeing's already been bailed out at least once, and is extremely dependent on reckless government spending as well as our forever wars. Even right now when we're carrying out multiple wars around the world and dumping massive amounts of money towards Boeing for space missions that they will probably never complete, Boeing's losing about a billion a year. Expressing concern about SpaceX's finances when comparing them against 'that' is something that cannot be considered a realistic concern.




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