ULA Vulcan Slips - Again
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ULA Vulcan Slips - Again
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-ceo...-launch-delay/
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hat is safe after ULA Vulcan rocket launch slips to 2023
…As of May 2021, ULA has now replaced one Vulcan launch with an Atlas V and inexplicably closed nine Atlas V launch contracts with Starlink competitor Amazon, bringing into question whether the company is ever actually going to simplify its rocket production lines.
Given that ULA no longer appears to be planning on reusing parts of Vulcan, the only possible way Vulcan will end up more affordable than the rockets its replacing is if it quickly becomes the only rocket ULA produces, which was originally the plan.
With ULA now apparently going out of its way to sell Atlas V commercially instead of Vulcan Centaur, it’s difficult to argue that the company has any interest at all in lowering the cost of access to space or offering SpaceX serious competition outside of lobbying and greasing the hinges of revolving doors.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hat is safe after ULA Vulcan rocket launch slips to 2023
…As of May 2021, ULA has now replaced one Vulcan launch with an Atlas V and inexplicably closed nine Atlas V launch contracts with Starlink competitor Amazon, bringing into question whether the company is ever actually going to simplify its rocket production lines.
Given that ULA no longer appears to be planning on reusing parts of Vulcan, the only possible way Vulcan will end up more affordable than the rockets its replacing is if it quickly becomes the only rocket ULA produces, which was originally the plan.
With ULA now apparently going out of its way to sell Atlas V commercially instead of Vulcan Centaur, it’s difficult to argue that the company has any interest at all in lowering the cost of access to space or offering SpaceX serious competition outside of lobbying and greasing the hinges of revolving doors.
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First Vulcan launch carrying the Peregrine lunar lander successful.
This was the first qualification flight, second later in the year before the Vulcan is certified for use by the DoD.
This was the first qualification flight, second later in the year before the Vulcan is certified for use by the DoD.
What happened to the Peregrine lander and what does it mean for moon missions?
The spacecraft, a collaboration between Nasa and Astrobotic, is unlikely to reach the lunar surface
The spacecraft, a collaboration between Nasa and Astrobotic, is unlikely to reach the lunar surface
I think the important point of course is that the prime aim of the flight was getting in a qualifying flight in for Vulcan, and as ORAC says that was successful.
Some of the media are painting this as being all about a failed Moon mission, but the Peregrine lander mission was a secondary objective.
Some of the media are painting this as being all about a failed Moon mission, but the Peregrine lander mission was a secondary objective.
For Info the Peregrine lander is still communicating with earth and functioning in a limited manner
It's on a trajectory which will eventually lead to it burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Astrobiotics Update 14 Jan
It's on a trajectory which will eventually lead to it burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Astrobiotics Update 14 Jan
17 Jan Update
Astrobotic confirmed Jan. 17 that its Peregrine lunar lander will reenter over the South Pacific on Jan. 18, concluding a 10-day mission that failed to land on the moon because of a propellant leak.
In a statement, the company said it had adjusted the spacecraft’s trajectory to ensure it would safely reenter at about 4 p.m. Eastern Jan. 18. The reentry location in an ellipse several hundred kilometers long with its center a little more than 500 kilometers south-southwest of Fiji.
In a statement, the company said it had adjusted the spacecraft’s trajectory to ensure it would safely reenter at about 4 p.m. Eastern Jan. 18. The reentry location in an ellipse several hundred kilometers long with its center a little more than 500 kilometers south-southwest of Fiji.
It's all over.
