I agree. Every time there is a failure, they seem to compound it by shooting themselves in the public relations foot. Much as I admire Elon, it is my opinion that this stupidity comes from the top.

BTW, there was a Twitter campaign to get SpaceX to reconsider. I wonder if that had an influence in the quick reversal of course. . . .

— Donald

they simply turn off the press coverage go dark and let some time pass and then hope that all is forgiven when theyh turn the lights back on.

And its silly RGO

https://vidd.me/sk9

SpaceX says they’re gonna webcast today’s launch attempt. But the weather is only 20% GO at this time.

“The issue is very much cost-plus versus fixed price. In fact, that’s the whole issue.”

No, it is not. The issue is certified cost and pricing data. It has nothing to do with either fixed-price or cost-plus contracting.>>

none of the things you mentioned are a service…they are a product but SpaceX is providng a service…think Boeing supplying 737 Maxs to SWA RGO

” This lack of visibility is rather unusual for SpaceX – a company that has gone out of its way to use social media and traditional media – with great success – to get word about its products and services to the widest audience possible. Indeed, just a week or so ago there was a large reception for the Dragon V2 in Washington DC and the news media was all over it. Flash forward. SpaceX explained this absence of a webcast yesterday as being due to the fact that these launches were becoming routine and that the webcasts are no longer needed. This was a little odd given that they had a webcast for the Friday launch attempt. Yes, they are a private company and this is a commercial activity, so they have every right to do this. But that does not mean its the smart thing to do.”

It is a dumb thing to do and thats from me Robert G. Oler