SPACEX FANS 1/3/2022
Blue Origin and ULA team up against SpaceX, but it's a funny tragic story.
By “marriage” with Blue Origin, ULA has been developing its Vulcan rocket to replace its workhorse Atlas V rockets and, eventually, its Delta IV rockets, too. Vulcan will allow ULA to stop using Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines that power Atlas booster stages now, and to lower its base launch price closer to $100 million, which would put ULA in closer price competition with SpaceX. But how is that relationship between them now? What laughter-provoking story is going on? Will the intention to bring down SpaceX ever succeed? Let's find out in this episode
ULA's Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-made RD-180 engine but since relations started to deteriorate between the United States and Russia a decade ago, this became untenable to Congress, leds ULA managed to get rid of its dependence on Russia.
On the other hand, despite being born late, SpaceX always provokes seniors with its spectacular performances. SpaceX, in addition to operating commercial flights, it is also gradually jumping into the military sector, where ULA has manipulated through exclusive contracts since 2015. But when it was encroached on by SpaceX, ULA was gradually left behind and fewer military contracts. In the commercial field, ULA is even more inferior to their junior because their rockets are tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars more expensive than SpaceX's rockets. Of course, ULA couldn't sit idly by and watch as SpaceX gradually devoured their market. The veteran military contractor has sought change with plans to create a high-tech rocket called the Vulcan, at a competitive price point that can rival SpaceX's Falcon 9.
Talking about the relationship between Blue Origin and SpaceX, the two billionaires also continuously “throw shade” on social networks or on the media.
What will be will be. Two seniors, bitter at being provoked by their junior, shook hands for a plan to regain the market.
Blue Origin and ULA team up against SpaceX, but it's a funny tragic story.
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