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Nit: the phrase is “biding their time” FYI

I agree with your statement overall.

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Or “buying time”

"Buying time" is an ordinary phrase in English but, it doesn't make a lot of sense here because there'd be some activity SpaceX is doing to "buy time". If you're just waiting that doesn't "buy time".

I think they just blended together in the posters mind



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