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leonidasruptoday at 6:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Building large payload cheap dependable rockets capable of reaching orbit with high probability is hard.


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FireBeyondtoday at 7:33 PM

Even leaving aside the extremes of industrial espionage or "there's only so much you can learn from SpaceX TV", you can be sure that there are absolutely huge swathes of aerospace engineering education and commercially that are using a lot of SpaceX's work as a Cliff Notes of sorts to help improve their own odds.