“What we have learned from our commercial partners is if we have a high enough cadence, we can relax some of the requirements that make it so costly, and have a higher risk appetite.”
translation from buzzword jargon into vernacular English: technical requirements and testing known to work cost really big bucks, so we’ll try flying a bunch of junk and hope something makes it ... maybe that will be less expensive than doing it right in the first place ... [plus, we can spread the dough around to more places and get more kickbacks and campaign “donations” that way] ...
“And if they fail, the next one is going to learn and succeed.”
IOW, as usual with all rocket “science”, we’ll blow shit up until something finally flies ...
Should have flown SpaceX.
“IOW, as usual with all rocket “science”, we’ll blow shit up until something finally flies ...”
Real men test in Production.