China's Space Program News Thread
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Oh well. Better luck next time.
I'd rather to have more failures with more launches, as it means that each single failure is less catastrophic. Honestly what SpaceX is doing in this regard is pretty smart. That company has single handedly revived the US space industry. What you want to avoid is a situation with the July 2017 LM-5 failure where a single event set the program back almost 2 1/2 years.
You gotta wonder though how much these failures are costing behind the scenes. It's a tradeoff between fast and cheap
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Fast,cheap,good. Pick 2.
Unless they factored in the idea and costs associated with a Failure, I don't think this would matter much.
The stomach for failures depends upon the investors. If they can say "it's alright, try next time" then I don't see any lasting repercussions.
However, I must question the existence of so many companies and entities trying to vie a position in the Commercial space sector. My opinion is to amalgamize into large entities where multiple smaller companies share the workload.
The stomach for failures depends upon the investors. If they can say "it's alright, try next time" then I don't see any lasting repercussions.
However, I must question the existence of so many companies and entities trying to vie a position in the Commercial space sector. My opinion is to amalgamize into large entities where multiple smaller companies share the workload.
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Then again, that is what someone with a lot of failures would say to you.
I would rather have someone with only one failure and come back successful a second time since that would mean that he has found out the cause of the problem.
On the other hand, someone who is only successful on the 10th time may not actually know the full cause of the problem but it comes out successful nonetheless but how much successful at that is still an unknown.
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Well, finding the cause of the problem is an unspoken given.
No one can succeed in space at all if they can't find the cause of problems.
There is a concept in programming called It means that you release each piece of software iteratively as it becomes available, rather than waiting for an entire project to finish to release all in one go-- project managers have found that this provides efficiency as smaller bits of the product can be rolled out to production and start adding value immediately. Meanwhile, you can learn from these small rollouts and customer requirements can change.
A series of smaller, iterative launches is essentially applying this concept to space. SpaceX has made rapid progress this way.
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