Doge cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink contracts, ex-workers warn
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/25/doge-musk-spacex-starlink-contracts
Doge cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink contracts, ex-workers warn
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/25/doge-musk-spacex-starlink-contracts
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I guess I’m going to have to leave this sub. It’s non stop
….we will just have to rely on that other satellite constellation system and that other rocket company instead….
wait until you find out where all that missing tesla money went
Ex-workers.
Yeah, I always trust people that were probably fired for cause.
These articles are always so biased. SpaceX and Starlink dominate not because of corruption but because they offer better services and better prices.
We already knew that. He did the same thing with purging a government facility to use for his neuralink.
This’ll be one of those areas that he declares a conflict of interest and does not get involved in right, RIGHT?
LOL of course not. It’s all such a grift. The lot of them.
So much for draining the swamp. It’s all about making the swamp for them.
Almost like allowing an unelected billionaire unfettered access to the government would allow him to make his companies, and therefore himself, much much richer
> “The risk of having outages is so significant because that data is used all the time for everything, and for far more than people realize,” a former employee said.
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> Musk, by contrast, has a mission of eliminating redundancies and finding efficiencies, and former agency employees noted his rockets and satellites have a history of crashing and exploding.
Someone needs to give this reporter a clip over the ear for this nonsense. Falcon 9 is pretty reliable, Starlink is reliable. The failures are public and anyone putting the numbers together will see that the failure rate is single digit percentages.
I hope the journalist isn’t conflating Starship development test flights with Falcon 9 because that would basically be lying. Oh sure, it’s just reporting what was said, but part of a journalists job when someone they interview says it is raining is to look outside and check for themselves.