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[Eric Berger] Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
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threelonmusketeers sh.itjust.works threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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Cherry piefed.social Cherry@piefed.social
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Lobbyist promoting competition…must be time to watch the greedy eating each other…we wish.

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burble lemmy.dbzer0.com burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I wish ULA was better than this.

If this succeeds, I think the best outcome would be for Rocket Lab and Relativity to split the rest.

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threelonmusketeers Moderator threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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I wish ULA was better than this. If this succeeds, I think the best outcome would be for Rocket Lab and Relativity to split the rest.

Seems like this might not happen at all, according to Eric Berger: https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2029254167471006033

The proposed language to cap NASA's launch procurement at 50 percent from any one company has been dropped from the final NASA reauthorization bill.

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burble lemmy.dbzer0.com burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Seems like this might not happen at all, according to Eric Berger: https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2029254167471006033 The proposed language to cap NASA's launch procurement at 50 percent from any one company has been dropped from the final NASA reauthorization bill.

Nice, I think that's for the best.

Switching to NSSL style procurement or big picture quotas doesn't seem like it makes sense for NASA. Planetary science doesn't exactly use "reference orbits" like the defense missions, and NASA already diversifies their launchers on ISS crew and cargo. If anything, letting lunar landers and smallsats figure out their own rides and rideshares is more in line with a commercial market solution than what Bridenstine was paid to support.

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