ERD50
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
...
It never occurred to me that commercial satellite launch was an industry that was overdue for a shake up.. Especially by a start up.
I would have thought so too, but I heard a podcast/interview with Musk a few years back. He talked about how the shuttle still used those big desk-sized Ampex tape drives for memory. NASA had to machine the repair parts, as they were out of production for years. He said a RAID configuration of a few thumb drives would out-perform those tape drives at a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost and weight. But it takes too much time/effort to qualify replacements through the NASA bureaucracy, so they still used the tape drives.
So now I can see where there is room for a start-up. It's hard to fathom ll the work and coordination to pull this off. Now where's that Hyperloop!
-ERD50