@Yeah_Dave That shmuck is just another Chris Kemp. Just using buzzwords to hype his stock. I also work in the industry and know that FLY has made some low quality hires in important positions recently
It's not enough to compare yourself to $RKLB and then say you are "more", but then you go on and suggest $FLY is an AI company providing services comparable to Anduril and $PLTR and xAI?!
Mega red flag. Not to mention disrespectful given how much $RKLB has helped them.
@CatSE___ApeX___ Horizontal vs vertical integration has nothing to do with the structural limits on the stack. Lateral launch loads are driven by the acoustic environment inside the fairing during launch. The are likely limiting to 4 bc they don’t want to eat more dry mass on the upper stack sats
@spacanpanman That’s what Limp said he wanted. No engineers actually think that’s going to happen. I’m sure AST is already booking up every open F9 slot
@AlexfromBabylon RKLB already has an extremely high end SDR radio licensed from APL (frontier). I’d like to seem them buy Tendeg, who are the best in the biz at making Perimeter Truss Reflectors
@BellikOzan I agree. Based on the wording, they clearly didn’t make it to the 1.4 ultimate load that they would’ve analyzed to. While likely not a big deal to fix on future units, I don’t believe that this doesn’t impact schedule
@RocketLab@spacepat_o Sounds like this failed somewhere between the 1.2X protoflight factor and the 1.4X ultimate load that you sized the design to. Do you plan to implement any fixes to the units currently being manufactured?
@SciGuySpace RKLB clearly has the best solution. Blue Ring is a stupid vehicle that’s both unnecessarily expensive and not optimized for the exact mission at hand. One-size-fits-all spacecraft do not work for ambitious interplanetary missions