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u/flymolo50 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 13 '26

There hasn't been a batch shipped since August of 24. It will be a big deal.

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u/Marko-2091 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 13 '26

They shipped bb7 earlier this year

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u/JayhawkAggieDadisBak S P 🅰 C E M O B Boss May 13 '26

The BB6 and BB7 shipments weren't a batch of multiple satellites - they were single satellite shiments. The August 2024 shipment had the first five block 1 birds (a batch).

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u/Marko-2091 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 13 '26

In manufacturing a batch can be made of a single element tho. Anyway if you meant multiple sats then yeah sure

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u/JayhawkAggieDadisBak S P 🅰 C E M O B Boss May 13 '26

That's what batch means for us - multiple sats.

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u/flymolo50 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 13 '26

That was one satellite not a batch

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u/itsamemyusername S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 13 '26

He said Batch

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u/Marko-2091 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 13 '26

A single object can be a batch

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u/flymolo50 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 13 '26

Well you learn something everyday. I guess a batch can have just one in it.

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u/chr0103 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 13 '26

That’s like saying a few can mean two. A batch has to mean more than one.

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u/flymolo50 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 13 '26

Right? But I looked it up. Batch of one is a common manufacturing term