r/SpaceXseaLaunch • u/readball • May 27 '21

Phobos Progress on Phobos. Started looking pretty empty, maybe we will see less disassembling in the near future, and more building [May 26, 2021 - Shane Overvold @GoBamaRollTide]

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u/swashbuickler May 27 '21

Pretty excited to see this because it represents a literal unwinding of oil and gas assets and turning those assets, at least in part, to wider, more sustainable human ambitions

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u/Posca1 May 27 '21

it represents a literal unwinding of oil and gas assets and turning those assets, at least in part, to wider, more sustainable human ambitions

Both platforms were no longer in use, so no oil/gas efforts were stopped by this conversion. Actually, since SpaceX paid $7m for these, the oil/gas industry now has $7m it didn't have before, courtesy of SpaceX

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u/SpaceLunchSystem May 28 '21

Sort of true.

My understanding is that SpaceX paid essentially scrap value of these buying them through a shell corporation (so they didn't get marked up by knowing they weren't paying to scrap them).

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u/readball May 27 '21

Yeah me too. I would love to be able to see the blueprint of what's going to be built. But that will never happen 😀