alt Hacker NewsDang it. I feel a sense of despair about yet another failure. We need multiple providers for rockets. I know this is incredibly difficult, endless failures in this difficult world.
Since a lot of the rest of the US space world is struggling to successfully launch, it will be even more of a loss when space x stops the falcon. How much of this is coming from combining and revamping huge existing space companies with a lot of legacy and practies?
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ericmay • today at 9:58 PM
> We need multiple providers for rockets.
We have that? SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab to name a few I can think of.
> Since a lot of the rest of the US space world is struggling to successfully launch
Can you walk me through how you are arriving at this conclusion?
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I'm with you--space is hard, but Vulcan was supposed to be the easy, reliable rocket.
I'm worried that this is a problem with the BE-4 engines, in which case, New Glenn is also affected.