Comments on: Problems ahead for ULA? http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/09/13/problems-ahead-for-ula/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=problems-ahead-for-ula Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: David Davenport http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/09/13/problems-ahead-for-ula/#comment-4775 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:25:11 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=650#comment-4775 When it was announced in early May, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture to build EELVs, looked like it would win wide acceptance from the government. …

Issues: The Atlas V and the Delta IV are extremely similar, except that they can’t share the same launch tower. ( Or could they? ) Why not down select to just one?

Reply: Keep both missiles alive to avoid dependence on one vender.

Reply to that: Why not choose the best of the two missiles, and second-source manufacturing of the better missile to the loser of the Atlas-Delta downselection?

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