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    $\begingroup$ Related: space.stackexchange.com/questions/3456/… $\endgroup$
    – Deer Hunter
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 20:36
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for this. I find the last paragraph on asymmetric strategy very insightful. Would still like to see costs, but this may be a good direction for ULA. Hope it finds its way off the drawing board and into real life $\endgroup$
    – neelsg
    Commented May 20, 2015 at 12:17
  • $\begingroup$ @neelsg Costs? How much have you got? This could cost somewhere between anything and everything. They wouldn't get started if they were sure. You might find some drawing board calculations, but everyone know that it is just a training exercise for new recruits. The ULA certainly has the ability to transform concepts to real rockets. No doubt about that, they have proven it. It is only about their incentives. How their abilities could be put to good use. I'm sure they have libraries with good ideas, they just pick out one which fits what they are paid to do. $\endgroup$
    – LocalFluff
    Commented May 20, 2015 at 12:57
  • $\begingroup$ "Soon no one will want to launch the same gadget more than 10 times because the vehicle will be ancient by then" -- how so? Spacex's reusability work aside, rockets haven't changed much in decades. $\endgroup$
    – radex
    Commented Dec 28, 2015 at 7:55