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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by 908B64B197 on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:30PM (#26787220)
> I worked at ULA for a year about five years ago. At that time they were arguing that it wasn't going to be cost effective.

When you sell the rocket and not the launch on cost plus contract, it's indeed not cost-effective.

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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by Robotbeat on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:58PM (#26787389)
ULA did and has done mostly fixed price contracts. (This is different than, say, the SLS contract.)

But ULA was stuck with their approach for several reasons, only a couple of which were in their control.

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