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CrimsonEnigma t1_iwlhbom wrote

IIRC, the bottleneck is on the capsule, not the rocket.

They’re reusing quite a bit from the Artemis 1 Orion capsule (including the avionics), so they have to complete this mission (including any evaluation after it lands) before they can take it out and finish the Orion for Artemis 2.

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surmatt t1_iwlpicg wrote

Yikes... I imagine this is because they want important data before making any improvements, but still.

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Triabolical_ t1_iwnt7fq wrote

No, it's because NASA wanted to save money. It's a year or more to do this change because Orion isn't easy to work on *at all*.

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404_Gordon_Not_Found t1_iwny797 wrote

"save money" do we know the opportunity cost of waiting for used hardware and paying idle fee vs whole new orion and launch the rocket?

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Triabolical_ t1_iws3kpw wrote

Like most large organizations, that's not something NASA tracks.

You can be sure that somebody in management hit their budget through that maneuver.

I used to work for a software company with developers that cost $200K a year (salary + benefits + stock + etc.) and were willing to do extra work if they only got $2500 laptops, but the company wouldn't do it. Somebody probably got promoted for that one.

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