Fingers crossed Vulcan can be what they aim for it to be. Tho seems like everyone is shitting the bed in one way or another
No competition or less competition is generally bad. What keeps SpaceX from raising prices now they are one of the only in town. Obviously there is still ula and such.
The answer is for the other companies to poach SpaceX employees by offering them huge paydays and benefits.
SpaceX doesn’t do magic and they treat their people pretty crappy. Just give engineers a good alternative to jump to.
What about OneWeb satellites?
Rogozin shenanigans from a couple years ago:
Russia places extraordinary demands on OneWeb prior to satellite launch
But on Wednesday the chief of Russia’s space program, Dmitry Rogozin, issued two demands before acceding to the launch. One, he said, OneWeb must guarantee that its satellites will not be used for military purposes. And two, the UK government must give up its ownership of OneWeb.
These extraordinary demands would seem to be non-starters. OneWeb has already pitched national defense agencies, including the United Kingdom, on using OneWeb satellites to facilitate rich networks of data for enhanced decision-making during military activities. And it is virtually impossible to see the UK government agreeing to Russian demands about what it does, and does not, own.
OneWeb ‘moves on’ from Soyuz-stranded satellites as its network nears completion
OneWeb refused and canceled all its future Soyuz launches. But it has been unable to retrieve the satellites from their Soyuz launchsite at the Russia-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellites are worth a combined $50 million, OneWeb chief executive Neil Masterson said Tuesday.
I spend no time thinking about it. We’ve completely moved on," Masterson said, deferring any future retrieval efforts to government authorities. “There is value getting them back, but I can tell you that I’m not getting them back any time soon.”
