11-30-2021, 10:31 PM
Everyone has days like this, I guess:
miley-shocked003:
Honestly, I’m pulling for them…if not necessarily for their somewhat…erratic CEO.
Elon Musk is angry with the lack of progress SpaceX has made in developing the Raptor engines that power its Starship rocket.
He described a dire situation the day after Thanksgiving in a companywide email, a copy of which was obtained by CNBC.
“The Raptor production crisis is much worse than it seemed a few weeks ago,” Musk wrote.
“We face genuine risk of bankruptcy if we cannot achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year,”
miley-shocked003:Musk wrote in the email that he planned to take the long Thanksgiving holiday off. But, after discovering the Raptor situation, Musk said he would personally work on the engine production line through Friday night and into the weekend.
“We need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster,” Musk wrote.
Honestly, I’m pulling for them…if not necessarily for their somewhat…erratic CEO.