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SpaceX just stomped the competition for a new contract—that’s not great (arstechnica.com)
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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but then have central government pay X% of the money so that it doesn't come out of the budget of the specific department (e.g. NASA)

In the implication here that it is Congress who want a diversity of suppliers, whereas NASA doesn't care as much? That's an interesting solution.

How would the X% be determined? Would it be the same for each company (except for the leader), or somehow proportional to how much the company is "struggling"?

[–] ptfrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the implication here that it is Congress who want a diversity of suppliers, whereas NASA doesn’t care as much?

Yes, I think that's the implication. I realized it's not correct but decided to leave it like that. I'm a big picture kinda guy; someone else can sort out the details!

I guess it might be more like a combined NASA / Space Force high level strategic fund providing the subsidy. So that individual 'low level' programmes within NASA / Space Force then don't have to worry too much about the long term strategic goals like dissimilar redundancy, and can mostly just focus on their own needs.