Due to a wet dress rehearsal that ran long and wasn't completed the launch date likely will slip into early Jan. 2024.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/tec...st-launch-delayed-to-january-2024/ar-AA1llFGE
Wet dresses are super hard to get on.
Due to a wet dress rehearsal that ran long and wasn't completed the launch date likely will slip into early Jan. 2024.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/tec...st-launch-delayed-to-january-2024/ar-AA1llFGE
The Atlas V was such a workhorse. Seems a shame to retire it.ULA in deep Doo Doo. Darn contract timing. Kill Starliner and use those Atlases with Ruskie engines.
The good ole days when Putin The Great was selling secretly left over Soviet motors at a huge discount. Made in the late 60's and early 70's they were better than anything the decadent and egotistical West could put out. Just bolt them on our existing supply of Atlas. Who said closed cycle was impossible?The Atlas V was such a workhorse. Seems a shame to retire it.
Blue Origin has to buy ULA now, just to ensure a ready made market for the BE-4 engine.
Found the date real interesting. When I was at Kennedy there was a policy of no major operations around a major holiday, as people's brains were generally not fully focused. Now orbital dynamics come into play as there is a payload going to the moon, but at the same time it's the moon.
Or maybe Lockheed-Martin should buy ULA. All they have to do is buy out Boeing’s 50 percent, right? Guarranteed launch vehicle for their payloads. Of course, the BE-4 engine has to eventually get operational or the new Vulcan rocket has no engine, right?The good ole days when Putin The Great was selling secretly left over Soviet motors at a huge discount. Made in the late 60's and early 70's they were better than anything the decadent and egotistical West could put out. Just bolt them on our existing supply of Atlas. Who said closed cycle was impossible?
And cheap motors made for lovely short term profits the pig dog capitalist corporate executives could not resist! Commrade Secretary Putin could never defeat the high and mighty West! Beautiful Billionaire Jeffrey B will have loads of superior BE-4s out by 2017. No worries, we will make those NRO contract deadlines and all the packages will fly! Capacity abounds, what could go wrong?
What about Apollo 8 and reading the Bible from the moon on Christmas Eve?
Blue Origin will buy the lot from Boeing and LM. Jeff RULES!Or maybe Lockheed-Martin should buy ULA. All they have to do is buy out Boeing’s 50 percent, right? Guarranteed launch vehicle for their payloads. Of course, the BE-4 engine has to eventually get operational or the new Vulcan rocket has no engine, right?
I was there in the early 2000's long after Apollo 8.What about Apollo 8 and reading the Bible from the moon on Christmas Eve?
The Atlas V was such a workhorse. Seems a shame to retire it.
Blue Origin has to buy ULA now, just to ensure a ready made market for the BE-4 engine.
That the RD-180 engines used in the Atlas V were leftovers from the 60's and 70's is a weirdly common misconception. Those leftover engines were NK-33's. Antares used them unti one failed in Orb-3, and then switched to the RD-181. RD-180's used by Atlas V were newly manufactured until ULA stopped buying them.The good ole days when Putin The Great was selling secretly left over Soviet motors at a huge discount. Made in the late 60's and early 70's they were better than anything the decadent and egotistical West could put out. Just bolt them on our existing supply of Atlas. Who said closed cycle was impossible?
A moon trajectory isn't really much more advanced than an earth orbit. It's just a matter of less payload capacity and pointing it in the right direction. The Saturn V was so big and advanced because it had to heave a heavy manned spacecraft into TLI, not because pointing a rocket at the moon is all that hard.I still find it amazing that the maiden flight is a moon shot.
No LEO shakedown or nothing.
A moon trajectory isn't really much more advanced than an earth orbit. It's just a matter of less payload capacity and pointing it in the right direction. The Saturn V was so big and advanced because it had to heave a heavy manned spacecraft into TLI, not because pointing a rocket at the moon is all that hard.
I'll believe it when I see it.ULA says its Vulcan rocket is finally ready to fly – Spaceflight Now
I was sure hoping to...I'll believe it when I see it.
That's what I said about the SLS and JWST.I'll believe it when I see it.
The BE-4 engine section from Vulcan is designed to be resusable/refurbishable, although I'm not sure if that feature will be tested in this initial launch.Congrats to ULA!
Do they still have the booster engine section recovery and re-use concept in the works?
They probably aren't going to test that feature until a few more flights. The next launch of Vulcan should be for Dreamchaser -- WOOT! I hope it's going to carry supplies for the ISS.The BE-4 engine section from Vulcan is designed to be resusable/refurbishable, although I'm not sure if that feature will be tested in this initial launch.
That feature is going to be added later.The BE-4 engine section from Vulcan is designed to be resusable/refurbishable, although I'm not sure if that feature will be tested in this initial launch.
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