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SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches

20 pointsby MarcoDeweytoday at 1:33 PM38 commentsview on HN

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thundercleezetoday at 4:41 PM

This thread is evidence of the decline in comment quality on this board.

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panick21_today at 3:48 PM

Man if only SpaceX had IPO without all the xAI crap attached to it. Then it might actually be worth looking into. I wanted to invest in SpaceX for a long time but now its laughably overvalued.

tw04today at 2:35 PM

Huh, DOGE didn't find any waste in spaceforce?

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2OEH8eoCRo0today at 4:17 PM

18 launches for $1.6B sounds like a terrible deal for SpaceX. Will they even profit?

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blitzartoday at 2:45 PM

The trifecta - fraud, waste and abuse

ulfwtoday at 2:24 PM

LOLLLL yea...

The stink of endless corruption in the new US of A

Surely is completely unrelated to Musk throwing money behind electing the people who give him these contracts.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-stink-of-musk

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zigzagtadpoletoday at 2:44 PM

If only the short term hype investors could get out of the market now and we can start building this thing back up.

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mrloopextoday at 3:10 PM

Due to subsidies and investment fraud and subsidized tax breaks to 1% shareholders this will cost the US 10x more than if NASA just did it. People like to say nasa was a bloated waste of money, but thinking beyond k=1 it is obvious privatization costs even more in the long run.

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