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Dissimilar Redundancy. Say the Falcon 9 suffers an in-flight failure. The last time that happened, there was a stand-down for quite some time, and I suspect tha
by trothamel 2y ago
Dissimilar Redundancy. Say the Falcon 9 suffers an in-flight failure. The last time that happened, there was a stand-down for quite some time, and I suspect that there would be a similar amount of time before people could be flown on it, even if I'd think Starlinks could resume right away.
Starliner/Atlas wouldn't be affected, and so ensure the US and our allies have access to the station without getting Russia involved.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Starliner/Atlas wouldn't be affected Every launch of the Atlas V has already been sold [1]. They can't make more because it uses the Russian RD-180 engine. If the Falcons were grounded, we wouldn't have the capacity to replace them with Starliner + Atlas V. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/26/22641048/ula-boeing-lockheed-end-sales-atlas-v-rocket-russia-rd180 https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/26/22641048/ula-boeing-lockh...
- lupusreal 2y agoIgnoring the issue of Atlas being EOL: At the rate Starliner is progressing, it would be faster to wait for SpaceX to fix whatever was ailing Falcon 9 than to wait for Starliner to be ready.
- kenny11 2y ago> have access to the station without getting Russia involved. Except for the Russian engine on the Atlas V.