Author Topic: March 5, 2014 Hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs (Musk and Gass)  (Read 143417 times)

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Shelby. mentions 68 consecutive EELV missions, not just cause he's from Alabama, etc. Competition "typically" is good but launch market is not typical. Competition is not the problem, buying EELV en bloc will make a greater savings.




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Chairman and Mr. Gass - who looks buoyant!
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Gass claims his rockets are the only rockets capable of carrying out the sat launches reliably.
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ULA looking at dual sat launches like Ariane.
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ULA expanding customer base.
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Gass claims his rockets are the only rockets capable of carrying out the sat launches reliably.

Gass seems to be heavily implying that competition will increase costs because of oversupply.

(I keep coughing on some of the stuff he's saying...)
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Gass was impressive.

Elon up...

5 billion dollars of orders on SpaceX's books.
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Elon Musk is going direct for the throat picking on ULA being overpriced.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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"You're paying too much" - paraphrased. Notes monopoly etc.

ULA have one billion dollars fixed cost, even if they don't launch!
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Elon is not mincing his words

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SpaceX would have saved 11.6 billion dollars, had they had the EELV contacts.

Hope to complete certification this year.
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Gass claims his rockets are the only rockets capable of carrying out the sat launches reliably.

You can only use that argument for a limited amount of time. Once SpaceX launches reliably 10 times in a row (the Falcon 9 version 1.1), it stops being an argument.
« Last Edit: 03/05/2014 02:21 pm by yg1968 »

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RD-180 Made in Russia. Yep, Musk went there. :D
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Elon jabbing Atlas V over not being fully American - and references the Ukrainian situation.

Holy crap, he's really going after them!
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Elon Musk mentioning that their rockets are 100% American and ULA uses pieces built in Ukraine and depends on Putin's permission.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

Offline Chris Bergin

Well there's my article for today! ;D

Scott Pace now up:
« Last Edit: 03/05/2014 02:23 pm by Chris Bergin »
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Key message is that Musk is asking for a reexamination of the ULA block purchase.
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

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Wow.. Musk and Gass will be cross examining each other. Holy crap.
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Here come the Russia questions!

Two years of safety stock in country on the engines. We are not at any risk of supporting national needs - Gass.

Business deal with NPO - have all the blueprints and specs, written in Russian and translated. Can build the engines in house.

There were things the Russians were doing that our textbooks said were impossible.

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