jamesbideaux

jamesbideaux t1_j4hwg02 wrote

one of the main issue is that air launching requires a lot of the rocket you are launching to be protection from the different stresses (in terms of direction) of flight.

It might turn out that we can do better but currently airlaunched rockets are inferior to ground launched rockets.

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jamesbideaux t1_ise7zs9 wrote

This whole deal was interesting because his relations with russia are horrible. He tried to buy refurbished ICBMs from them before founding SpaceX, they insulted him and raised prices. He then went to basically eat Roscosmos' Market share and they criminalized owning a Starlink dish in Russia.

so generally relations are not great.

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