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NASA concerned Starship problems will delay Artemis 3 (spacenews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Jetty@lemmy.world to c/space

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[–] xvlc@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This seems to me to be more more of a case of Hofstadter's law. Cost-plus contracts don’t seem to have any better track record than fixed-price contracts. For example, JWST was delayed several times, and SLS was originally mandated to launch in 2016, 6 years before the actual first launch date. Starship does not meet the ambitious internal schedule of SpaceX, but the speed of development is still impressive to most other space-related projects.

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