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For a rocket that has yet to launch against a rocket that's already mature and yet continued to improves its launch cadence by launching 96 times this year and
by kiba 3y ago
For a rocket that has yet to launch against a rocket that's already mature and yet continued to improves its launch cadence by launching 96 times this year and aspires to launch 144 next years. That means SpaceX can literally compete on price.
Also, ULA is selling itself, so don't count Boeing/Lockheed stocks, unless you think the stock price will rise with sale of ULA?
- LargeTomato 3y agoFair point, Vulcan has never launched, but all rocket companies compete with paper rockets. Relativity Space had "the cheapest rocket ever" and "the biggest manufacturing capacity of any rocket company" and that rocket ended up never making it to orbit and was scrapped entirely. Relativity pocketed billions of dollars in funding in the process.
- booi 3y ago> all rocket companies compete with paper rockets I don't understand this statement. In this bid, SpaceX is competing with a real, proven and profitable rocket family. Everyone else is competing with vaporware?
- LargeTomato 3y agoFair. I almost removed "all" in favor of something excluding Rocket Lab and SpaceX but technically Starship is vaporware until it's delivered so I kept it in. But you do have a good point and I concede that SpaceX has a far more credible case for their rockets than almost anyone else.