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Technically the source inspection issue shouldn’t be on SpaceX, it’s on the supplier. It’s very common in aerospace for a supplier to test their own products and provide a test report along with the product. The end customer is involved in approving the test procedure and the supplier overall. In rare instances companies will test supplier parts upon receipt, but in most cases it is a supplier task.
The issue is the price Space-X is willing to pay for anything. I know engineers who worked there and they left because they were starving. You pay sub-standard rates you get sub-standard parts.
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