SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket remains grounded while the company investigates the cause behind a rare failure on their July 11 launch.  The Falcon 9 is the workhorse of the space industry, already launching nearly 70 times so far this year. With it temporarily out of service, a number of high-profile missions have been put on […]
  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    81·
    4 months ago

    With a great flight rate comes great responsibility.

    This is a really bad look for the rest of the launch industry that isn’t able to step up to fill the gap.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      4 months ago

      Bad look? What’s the Falcon failure rate at this point?

      Now what’s the failure rate of any other reusable platform?

      • bisby@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        Bad look for the rest of the industry

        The fact that the entire rest of the industry combined can’t step up to provide flights is an indicator.

        If ULA were to go offline, flights could be moved to other companies and the industry might have a hiccup but would otherwise barely be noticed.