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Was there any "surrendering" really? The only competing launch vehicle was Proton-M. My impression is that Proton-M developer Khrunichev basically collapsed bec
by orbital-decay 9y ago
Was there any "surrendering" really? The only competing launch vehicle was Proton-M. My impression is that Proton-M developer Khrunichev basically collapsed because of reliability issues and poorly thought out production relocation strategy (from Moscow to Omsk). It has little to do with Falcon 9; ILS would have lost the market share to any other company due to Khrunichev's internal issues.