laid off all employees last March
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 12:59, Reply)
We need a gender neutral version of that word that people understand. Seamsters?
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 14:46, Reply)
Lots of viable companies have been operating through covid.
I'm also thinking they need to pivot pretty quickly to making inflatable surface habitats, because Starship coming online in the next few years will demolish the requirement for inflatable orbital modules.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 15:54, Reply)
Firing everybody with the possibly empty promise to rehire is cheaper than furlough, or being sued by an employee who catches the virus.
That said, I got the impression that their workers were all in clean-suits anyway, which isn't very different from working in full PPE.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 17:13, Reply)
None of the other space companies seem to have slowed down much, if at all. After all SpaceX seem to still be blowing prototypes up, Boeing still seem to be hoovering up the dollars and delivering nothing. All business as usual.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 20:53, Reply)
Did you see the successful redo of the static fire test for SLS? I think only a few tens of thousands saw the stream, compared to the million or two who tuned in for the initial failure.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 14:59, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJTDvOIXbk
Looks like they got a good 8 minutes, as planned.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 19:09, Reply)
Rumoured to form part of a well embroidered cushion set perhaps.
(, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 16:56, Reply)