SpaceX Launch Delays
The cluster focuses on skepticism about SpaceX's announced launch timelines, particularly for Starship, with discussions of historical delays, comparisons to Boeing and Blue Origin, and the challenges of rocketry.
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They said they'd use starship to launch and it's not yet ready
The launch was delayed. Happens all the time with rockets.
Are Boeing and SpaceX complication rescheduling timelines usually comparable? (Serious question)
Huge SpaceX fan here, but I've heard from various news sources that the company is famous for aggressively posting dates and then slowly letting them slide. Might that be the case here? (Still, even if it's 2 or 3 years, wow!)
You couldn't start launching things in 30 days, you need to wait for a launch window, which happens every ~2 years. The transit times are on top of that.
Yeah, this is a red flag. I expect actual launches to happen in 2+ years.
SpaceX has a pretty poor history of keeping to their announced schedules (e.g. Falcon Heavy was supposed to fly in what, 2015?). So while this will be great if it happens, I wouldn't get too excited yet.
Not true. Musk said they weren't ready to launch yet anyways, and that they expected to be ready around the same time they expected to get FAA clearance. So it's not holding things up yet. And it might never.
At least not until ~2023 or so, when Starship is ready.
Space is hard. If you think SpaceX exaggerated their timeline, then NASA (JWST, SLS, Artemis), Blue Origin, ULA, Rocket Lab, Arianne all did. See how late their rockets have been?