> SpaceX has over 3,000 suppliers, with some 1,100 of those delivering to SpaceX nearly weekly.
> 4 Jan 2016 — SpaceX has thousands of suppliers. In fact, the recent failure of the flight CRS-7 was most likely due to a bad part from a supplier.
> Frank McCown has already said, they at least buy certain structural struts. And at the lower levels, they certainly buy most if not all of their electronics piece parts plus things like nuts and bolts. They probably also buy things like pressure transducers
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Date: 2024-12-16 09:22 pm (UTC)> SpaceX has over 3,000 suppliers, with some 1,100 of those delivering to SpaceX nearly weekly.
> 4 Jan 2016 — SpaceX has thousands of suppliers. In fact, the recent failure of the flight CRS-7 was most likely due to a bad part from a supplier.
> Frank McCown has already said, they at least buy certain structural struts. And at the lower levels, they certainly buy most if not all of their electronics piece parts plus things like nuts and bolts. They probably also buy things like pressure transducers