Still haven’t gotten insurance for F3? No rocket and date reserved? Still more delays on the rocket? It’s only been 3 years or more.
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GEO was supposed to be proven technology, and back then a lot of people said what Starlink was trying to do was impossible! How times have changed.
Amazing to think that VS3 was announced in 2016 only one year after Starlink...and yet look how far we have got compared to Starlink. One crippled bird versus 6,371 active ones on orbit tells you all you need to know really.
I guess the truth is that the future launches have not been announced because there is nothing (credible, legal, auditable, defendable) that can be announced as yet.
That was kind of the sense of the challenging Delta meeting that happened last week.
If we could say something positive we would.
Thirs time's the charm? Cool.
Forget insurance, if F2 fails then F3 is the insurance
meant track record with vs2 insurance and that antenna "anomoly". These anomolies are starting to look a lot more like features
Given our track record it may also be we either can't get or can't afford the insurance for the next bird. We literally drained the entire sat insurance market with flight 1 and I6, plus our track record with VS3 insurance. The next insurance contract is gonna be a wee bit painful.
I remember watching Elon’s trains of LEO birds in the sky circa 2020… good times.
3 years? holy cr-p this constellation was supposed to be deployed in 2019. mythical beast indeed.