#ula

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

A depiction of a Starship booster landing and a Starship stacking at SLC-37. The old ULA expendable rocket launch site is being repurposed for the fully reusable #SaturnV sized SpaceX Starship.
Screenshot from #WAI video.

#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #ULA #DeltaIV #DeltaIVHeavy

Bye bye Delta IV Heavy expendable rocket.
(photo from Brady Kenniston)

#ULA

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

SpaceX Starship launch and landing sites:

Starbase, Texas.
Pad 39A KSC, Florida.
SLC 37 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #ULA #DeltaIV #DeltaIVHeavy #WAI

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

Boeing and Lockheed's ULA never landed its obsolete expendable rockets.
ULA's former Delta IV Heavy launch site getting demolished, to make room for Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship launch site at SLC-37 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Another Starship launch tower is already being built at Pad 39A at KSC, Florida.
ULA's infrastructure at SLC-37 is being replaced by a SpaceX Starship launch site that will feature 2 huge launch/landing towers, and another 2 huge landing towers.
Screenshot from #WAI video, depicting the new SLC-37 launch and landing site.

#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #ULA #DeltaIV #DeltaIVHeavy

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

ULA's former Delta IV Heavy launch site getting demolished, to make room for Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship launch site at SLC-37 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Another Starship launch tower is already being built at Pad 39A at KSC, Florida.

#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #ULA #DeltaIV #DeltaIVHeavy

ULA Vulcan (2 BE-4 engines from Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, 2 GEM-63XL SRMs from Northrup-Grumman).
Vulcan is an expendable orbital rocket that can have up to 6 SRMs for a total thrust of 17,257 kN (3,879,494 LBf).
(Photo from Max Evans)

#Space #Astrodon #ULA #Vulcan

James Risen at Guardian says:
“[SpaceX] is seeking to overcome the edge held by United Launch Alliance [], a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the traditional giant in the niche.”

LMAO, what “edge” does the ULA have over SpaceX?

The lawyer, journalist, managerial class really have no clue about the state-of-the-art in spaceflight. SpaceX is 90% of the world’s annual orbital upmass.

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/trump-musk-billionaires-influence-national-security

#Space #Astrodon #ULA #SpaceX #ElonMusk

The final launch of the expendable Delta IV Heavy.
(photo from Max Evans)

#ULA #Boeing #LockheedMartin

#Amazon is under time pressure . The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 . More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

#Kuiper #ULA #Ariane6 #NewGlenn #Falcon9

ULA's Vulcan. The newest, and probably the last of the large expendable orbital rockets in America. It uses 2 BE-4s from Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, and 2 GEM 63XL SRBs from Northrop Grumman.

#Space #Astrodon #ULA

The importance and advantage of rapid re-usability in launch cadence and orbital upmass.
~27 minutes

#WAI video: https://youtu.be/vPXp4p8AkZQ

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starship #ElonMusk #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #JeffBezos #ULA

"Tech Lord Jeff Bezos uses his classic business manuever to crush the jew ULA."

Expendable ULA Vulcan on the left, reusable New Glenn on the right.

#Space #Astrodon #jews #ULA #BlueOrigin #JeffBezos

Tech Lord Jeff Bezos uses his classic business manuever to crush the jew ULA.

Because Boeing/Lockheed/RocketDyne are so riddled with divershitty, that they could not develop their own 1st stage cryogenic rocket engines.

Expendable ULA Vulcan launching with 2 of Jeff Bezos's BE-4 engines.
Jeff Bezos's reusable 7m dia New Glenn launching with 7 BE-4 engines.

#Space #Astrodon #jews #ULA #BlueOrigin #JeffBezos

Tech Lord Jeff Bezos uses his classic business manuever to crush the jew ULA.

Because Boeing/Lockheed/RocketDyne are so riddled with divershitty, that they could not develop their own 1st stage cryogenic rocket engines.

#Space #Astrodon #jews #ULA #BlueOrigin #JeffBezos

Elon Musk has launched (and landed) 5 Falcon 9s in the 1st 10 days of 2025.

It takes the ULA an ENTIRE YEAR to launch that many rockets.

#SpaceX #Falcon9 #ElonMusk #ULA

#BlueOrigin and Cerberus Capital Management had placed bids in early 2023 for #ULA. #RocketLab had also expressed interest. None of those discussions led to a deal. #Boeing and #LockheedMartin are in talks to sell their rocket-launching joint venture ULA to #SierraSpace https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-lockheed-martin-talks-sell-ula-sierra-space-2024-08-16/

This year alone, #ULA has lost about 45 of its 105 Launch Operations engineers to competitors, including #BlueOrigin and #SpaceX https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2024/08/15/the-pentagons-top-rocket-launcher-is-behind-profit-goals-and-losing-staff/

#ULA's other big customer, #Amazon's Project #Kuiper broadband constellation, also won't be ready to launch its first batch of operational #satellites . #Vulcan will take off in September with a dummy payload https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/ula-will-launch-its-second-vulcan-rocket-without-a-real-payload/

#SierraSpace’s #DreamChaser will remain behind after the company informed #ULA it would not be able to make the launch date https://payloadspace.com/ula-sets-vulcan-cert-2-for-september-without-dream-chaser/

#Vulcan

@jfoust #ESA’s director of #space transportation : “Honestly, I don’t think #Starship will be a game-changer or a real competitor. Starship will not eradicate #Ariane6 at all” . The response on social media to those comments was one of #ridicule and #derision. https://spacenews.com/foust-forward-whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-starship/

#Arianespace #ULA #SpaceX #RocketLab