Russia halts deliveries of rocket engines to the U.S.

reuters ^

[RoseofTexas]

AOC said ...green energy ...we must build a bridge to Hawaii..🤡 🤪

[Deplorable American1776]

We can’t build freaking rockets in the US? Time to manufacture rockets here in America!!

[Campion]

And don't forger that NASA is always subject to a ridiculous amount of micromanagement by Congress, who isn't content to just give them a mission and let them do the engineering; no, Congress goes ahead and tells them how to do it as well.

Having lawyers and politicians telling engineers how to do their job generally results in poorly-performing systems that are late and very expensive.

[SmokingJoe]

Yup.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin have been using Russian engines for their ULA rockets for a long time.
Pathetic isn’t it?

[SuperLuminal]

"That is about the dumbest post I’ve seen on FR in 22 years."

Me, being a little dense today, maybe you could explain why...

[SmokingJoe]

Nope.
The Russians own and built that part of the Spacestation. No one can remove them.

[POWG]

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of faith in Blue Origin. They have only built 9 BE-4 engines in 10 years. None have actually flown anything. Spacex has built and tested over 100 Raptors and flown 5 Starship test flights. 4 of those crashed on landing but the engines worked.

[SmokingJoe]

We can and we do. Elon Musk's SpaceX does.

[JoSixChip]

Blue Origin has not even been able to achieve orbit yet. SpaceX is launching the majority of payloads to orbit at 1/10th the cost of any other mid to large size launch vehicle. Elon is not favored by the deep state, but now they have no choice.

[Jumper]

The part about jettesioning people into space.

The ramifications of starting war in space would set humanity back 50 years in cleaning up the mess from a free for all turning near space into a junkyard.

I am not sure you thought of the fallout. Nobody could be a winner.

Economic transactions were the driving force alone for Japanese satellite development in the 70s. Back then Japanese gov cost analysis for penny a transaction on Visa and banking literally justified their sat.

Then the damage to coms... future exploration... mineral mining, etc.

The world cannot afford distrust from killing two cosomats.

I probably should have mentioned this.

Nothing to do with engine purchases.

[Jumper]

See no 90.

[Campion]

A strong argument can be made that we should have two independent rocket families available for orbiting midrange payloads, even if one is more expensive than the other. Musk isn’t perfect (nobody is).

[Campion]

Yes, that’s what’s holding Vulcan back. I wonder if ULA is regretting not going with the Rocketdyne offering.

[Nateman]

...NASA's primary role is funnelling billions to contractors who aren't actually required to deliver working equipment on time and on budget as long as certain facilities in certain states and districts get funding.

You got that right! I really wanted the James Webb telescope to get out there and do its job. Just one disappointing setback after another with a project that was 500 million turning into 10 billion. I'm glad , after 26 years , it is finally out there and close to actually producing something.