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Blue Origin whiffed a major New Glenn mission on Sunday, putting a $30 million AST SpaceMobile cellular satellite into the wrong orbit. Bluebird 7 is so low that it lacks enough onboard fuel to boost itself to its proper orbit, and will have to be de-orbited as a total loss.

>Blue Origin whiffed a major New Glenn mission on Sunday, putting a $30 million AST SpaceMobile cellular satellite into the wrong orbit. Bluebird 7 is so low that it lacks enough onboard fuel to boost itself to its proper orbit, and will have to be de-orbited as a total loss.
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So I asked him one time why ULA wasn't looking into reusability.

"We did look into it, we're not idiots," he said. "We're good engineers. We could do it, but the economics didn't work out." Making a rocket reusable comes with tradeoffs, and ULA didn't see enough demand for lift to make those compromises financially worthwhile.

SpaceX created Starlink, which generates the demand and the cash flow to keep the company ahead of the competition. My friend was right that ULA had plenty of engineering talent, but the corporate management lacked imagination.

What a powerful statement

My friend was right that ULA had plenty of engineering talent, but the corporate management lacked imagination.

This encapsulates America today. This, ruled by jewish short term profit mentality, is what cripples us. This is the downfall of the west. This is us being bled dry slowly while jew billionaires rape our peoples inheritance.