SpaceX Destroys A Satellite Worth Billions of Dollars

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Elon Musk thinks its funny that his SpaceX company keeps blowing shit up. I guess laughing at these monumental fuck ups is the only way to deal with such epic fails.

Elon Musk's SpaceX company is back in the news again. They were tasked with launching an expensive spy satellite into space. Even though they deny any wrongdoing, it looks as if they destroyed the satellite. No problem though, it was only worth billions of dollars! lol

Axios:

A classified spy satellite launched by SpaceX yesterday may have been destroyed after failing to reach orbit, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unidentified industry and government officials. Members of Congress and staff have been briefed on the mission, which destroyed a secret satellite that may have cost "billions of dollars" according to the paper.

Why it matters: SpaceX has been trying to become a "reliable, low-cost launch provider" for the military, the paper says, competing against a more established competitor run by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The company had planned more than 25 launches this year, including its first with astronauts. SpaceX said it's rocket "performed nominally" but didn't provide additional information.

SpaceX really has a knack for fucking shit up. In fact, Musk seems to think that it is legitimately funny that they keep fucking shit up. The official SpaceX YouTube channel has a whole compilation of their fuck ups.

You may recall in 2016, SpaceX blew up Facebook’s $200 million satellite. I have to admit that I laughed when that happened. I heard Mark Zuckerberg cried upon hearing the news.

But serious question, why is the government doing business with Musk and SpaceX? They have a very poor track record and just cost taxpayers billions of dollars with this fiasco. Certainly there needs to be an investigation into this situation.

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I suppose he is laughing because he won’t be paying for the satellite. It does not appear that he has been particularly successful in the reliable and low cost departments.

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You get what you pay for I guess.

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Why is Space X, a company that is either Israeli in origin or has very close ties to Israel, being allowed to launch secret US military satellites into space? Was it a no-bid contract? Were there no US based companies interested in doing the job? What about NASA or the Air Force? How come they didn’t launch that satellite?

And I wonder if that satellite was actually destroyed. Maybe it was just meant to look like an accident so the Israeli navy could pick it up in the Indian Ocean and bring it back to Tel Aviv?

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This is starting to look like a money laundering operation.

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What a waste of billions. Israel could have used that money.

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I think you’re on to something there.

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Here’s a couple hints for Elon: Hire some of dem snarky black math geniuses. I mean they got us to the moon and back. Or join up with the pyongyang gang since Kimmy’s rockets seem to need a little help.
Really, this guy Elon Musk, which incidentally his name reminds me of some cheap men’s cologne back in the disco era, wants to put people up in space for joy rides? Uh, not with that launch record.
Come to think of it, it would be a good bet that that spy satellite is working perfectly and at this very minute is spying on me right now.