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by mullingitover
578 days ago
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> People from the Starwars days are very open about what they want and thinking that its a good idea to continue that. They talk openly about it. Big picture yes, but definitely not the actual details. And maybe you're right, maybe Musk is a true believer. I just think that I can't possibly know what's the truth or not when, if this project is real it would be treated like the biggest state secret in history with plenty of efforts to obfuscate what's actually happening. In WWII we intentionally let people die to protect the fact that Enigma had been cracked, and keeping this program secret would be at least as important to national security. > But SpaceX has not started bidding on such contracts until recently. Literally the first thing that SpaceX ever tried to launch was for a DoD contract[1]. Maybe not a big one, but they go way back with the DoD, before they had any serious prospects. So they started out with DoD, and the second they got a single solitary atom into orbit they got a 1.6 billion dollar contract with NASA. Who was the NASA administrator when they got that contract? Oh that's right: Michael D. Griffin. [1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20060048219/downloads/20... |
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I was talking about sat contracts, not rockets.
This was the first and so far only one (outside of Starshield): https://spacenews.com/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-...
And again, non of this is secret, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
And SpaceX just delivers the sat bus, not any of the other missile related stuff.
This is a minor sideshow for SpaceX.
> Big picture yes, but definitely not the actual details.
People don't talk in detail about national security projects ... shocker.
Everything you are arguing is just typical conspiracy theory 'coincidence I THINK NOT' type of argument. You have absolutely nothing even remotely solid. So Ill show you how its done:
> In 1991, Griffin was the president and CTO of Orbital Sciences
and then
> in December 2008, NASA awarded SpaceX and Orbital Sciences
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! Orbital got 300 million $ more then SpaceX for doing LESS!!!!!!
Northrop Grumman has since absorbed Orbital.
> SDA industry partners now include SpaceX, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Ball Aerospace and General Dynamics.
AHAHAHAHAH COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!