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Blue Origin General Discussion Thread 2
Chris Bergin:
Thread 2 for this general Blue Origin thread. A new update only thread will be added later.
Thread one: (Over 800,000 views!)
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=10685.0
Will fill this opening post out with more content later.
Navier–Stokes:
According Eric Berger (Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica), Blue Origin was once interested in buying ULA but such a move is no longer being considered:
--- Quote from: https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/921048230745567232 ---
--- Quote ---Jacob Teufert @jteufert
My bet is BO buys ULA.
--- End quote ---
Eric Berger @SciGuySpace
they've looked at this in the past, but it's off the table for now.
--- End quote ---
abaddon:
The tweet says "they've looked at this in the past, but it's off the table for now". This suggests such a strategy is something they might consider in the future.
rcoppola:
There's not much ULA has that BO needs at this point. They have the pad, hardware, manufacturing...etc..
And they don't need to buy them to acquire any of their talent/experience, if needed.
Too many legacy entanglements with that purchase. Not worth it IMO.
woods170:
--- Quote from: rcoppola on 10/19/2017 05:26 pm ---There's not much ULA has that BO needs at this point. They have the pad, hardware, manufacturing...etc..
And they don't need to buy them to acquire any of their talent/experience, if needed.
Too many legacy entanglements with that purchase. Not worth it IMO.
--- End quote ---
Agreed. ULA only becomes interesting to Blue again once Delta IV is gone, Atlas V is on its way out, the overhead in launchpads is gone as well as the personnel count. Also, ULA will have to become agile, not depending on just government work to stay in business. Once they succeed in doing that (and I think they eventually will) than they will be IMO interesting to Blue again.
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