[AR] Re: SpaceX F9 Launch/Update -- Live Link

  • From: Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:43:14 -0500

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Dave Klingler <davek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Rocketdyne, having been paid to develop an 
AR-1, teamed up with Dynetics and Schafer and proposed a new Alabama launcher 
based on it in a few years.  If ULA still exists at that point and is 
producing the Vulcan, I’m not sure what rationale would be stipulated for 
congressional funding.  I’ll readily grant that very little rationale is 
necessary.

How very cynical. That's like saying that Orbital ATK would take
government money to try to convert the failed SRB/Ares 1X/Liberty
rocket into a new, not very commercially competitive EELV.

http://spacenews.com/orbital-developing-rocket-to-compete-with-spacex-ula/

Ben

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