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SLS is far behind still, it's a bit premature to conclude that SpaceX and ULA _won't_ gobble up all the contracts and render SLS obsolete.
by WhompingWindows 8y ago
SLS is far behind still, it's a bit premature to conclude that SpaceX and ULA _won't_ gobble up all the contracts and render SLS obsolete.
- simonh 8y agoULA don't have any heavy lift rockets in the class of SLS in the works, and the only contracts to do so would come from NASA anyway, so there's no competition to SLS coming from that quarter. Of course Falcon Heavy is squarely in the same class as SLS, but even there payloads being developed for SLS right now probably can't be easily adapted to BFR, so SLS will still have a role to play at least for a while.