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The Starship program hits another speed bump with second consecutive failure (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX's Starship contracts with NASA are fixed price and milestone based. So, if they blow it up, that cost is on them. Just like Boeing has had to shell out a lot of money from continuing to fail on Starliner.

[โ€“] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago

Ah, some good news, at least.