@Jason@johnternus Why wouldn’t you when you can sell 4 $25,000 Studios to someone?
Just close your eyes and ignore that has a 10+ year payback versus using frontier models🤣
@DanMarine4@Staudinger333@trypto_tran@mottbox_ It’s mostly because they picked a 2 year timeline, which is outrageous - and even more so once you look at their track record of hitting their own milestone targets.
I genuinely hope it works out, but they deserve the criticism here.
What’s wrong with licensing engines versus starting from scratch?
Assuming the engines are exceptional (I know that’s a stretch in this instance, but just for arguments sake), can you not engineer and build a great rocket around those engines? Why not, if not?
Thanks in advance for your time in answering.
@jerseyahmet You’re missing my point; they have a history of saying they’re going to do things when they haven’t even hired the team required to do it (reread what I said about the launch team timeline).
I haven’t seen them hiring for rocket engineering and the 2 year clock is ticking!
Has $ASTS already hired all their Rocket engineers to build this new launcher? Genuine question - I may have missed them.
Or will this be like 2026 Launch where they didn't even post the job listings for the Launch team until April 2026? (while claiming in 2025 60+ sat launch)