>>14343950The real story goes:
•ULA needs to choose engines for its upcoming Vulcan rocket
•Despite coming from long-time partner AR, The AR1 is more expensive AND has a longer dev time, so they go with Blue Origin who randomly and unexpectedly bid their own engine for commercial use
•Tory is happy! He inherited the CEO position of ULA just as spacex started becoming an actual thorn in their side, which they did not expect! Newspace is actually biting into them. Surely this new contract with Blue Origin will give them an ally to work against Musk
•BO just passed up Houston and is now building their new factory in Huntsville!!!
-pic is taken here as Tory is happily celebrating his newfound ally-
•Uh oh... BO just said they will be charging way more than the original contract for engines. Relationship starts deteriorating (read:)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/blue-origins-powerful-be-4-engine-is-more-than-four-years-late-heres-why/•They said the engine would be flying off the production line but, they're hardware-poor? We need 2 engines at a time and their own rocket needs SEVEN of them and they can't even get ONE out the door???
•Oh no the engine keeps shitting itself to death and they keep delaying
•What have I done?
