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In response to
"I'm just surprised ULA can't or won't develop its own engines. They're relying on Russian engines, Blue Origin, and surplus shuttle boosters."
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TWuG
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It might come from the plane based origins of the two partners that make up ULA. Neither Lockheed nor Boeing have made aircraft engines for -- (edited)
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Nov 14 '23, 16:29
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seemingly forever so same business model for the ULA launch vehicles.
There also was the lack of market pressure to drive down launch costs so it was easy / status quo to just buy expensive engines from others.
So it's not like ULA can just ramp up their in-house engine department. They need to start a department from scratch, then develop designs, test / prove them out, produce working engines, and then ramp up engine production.
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