SpaceX just surpasses United launch Alliance in launching Rockets SpaceX charges less than
United launch Alliance for rocket launches although United launch Alliance Rockets have
historically been more dependable this has been a truth in the space sector for the longest time
at least as far back as newfangled space stocks are concerned according to data from s p Global
Market intelligence this is why SpaceX is thought to be at best and consistently profitable while
Boeing and Lockheed Martin the two companies that make up the joint venture known as the
United launch Alliance or Ula generate profit margins in their respective space businesses
that range from 6 percent to nine percent however times are a changing the fact is
that the world has recently altered and it did so last night with the launch of spacex's most
recent and successful starlink mission to place internet satellites in orbit will SpaceX put
Ula out of business let's find out hello everyone and welcome back to Elon Musk evolution
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miss any of our amazing videos and let's check out how SpaceX and Ula Compares when it comes to
successfully launching rockets in space for the past few years till now as of August 4th 2022
ula's total States at 152 straight successes every time Ula launches a rocket it adds another point
to the board and issues a press release boasting of how many times in a row it has launched a
rocket with 100 Mission success while SpaceX does not or at least does not publicly provide such
accounts it does not keep track of its winning streak and according to report SpaceX for the
past few months got ever closer to surpassing its main competitor in space launches but how
let's check it out SpaceX had successfully launched Rockets into orbit 179 times as of
last weekend since beginning rocket launches with a fireball in March six however it hadn't
launched successfully 179 times in a row because one of its Rockets exploded two and a half minutes
into flight in 2015 and another rocket exploded while being fueled on its launch pad in September
2016. however SpaceX and its Fleet of Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy Rockets have experienced nothing but
success since that time SpaceX successfully completed its 180th launch on Sunday night
making its 153rd consecutive successful flight by precisely one launch SpaceX surpassed ula's
winning streak in the process now Ula may have a chance to catch up to SpaceX when it launches its
nrol 91 Mission the following week however it may not given the rate at which SpaceX is launching
Rockets which suggested it may have already pulled even farther ahead by then it's also a foregone
conclusion that SpaceX or Ula for that matter will experience an anomaly at some point in the future
and ruin its winning streak the first stage of spacex's Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy Rockets which
you have respective cost of 62 million and 90 million dollars is reusable additionally they
are working on the Starship a fully reusable Mars Transportation rocket the launch contract for the
U.S government has been exclusively held by Ula since 2006. this Monopoly was broken in 2014 when
the U.S Air Force authorized Falcon 9 to compete for high-profile launch contracts so the question
is will SpaceX Drive Ula out of business no not in the near future however SpaceX and blue origin
will force Ula out of business over the next five to ten years the joint venture between Boeing and
Lockheed Martin is called United launch Alliance these two businesses were Fierce Rivals before
2006 and were engaged in lengthy legal disputes in order to put an end to their legal dispute they
chose to establish a 50-50 partnership Corporation in 2006. they thus established the Ula when this
Arrangement first began SpaceX complained to the FTC claiming it was illegal since it would
lead to a Monopoly hinder Innovation and raise the price of government satellite launches nobody was
aware of Elon Musk or SpaceX at the time SpaceX also failed to enter orbit therefore nobody was
concerned about the protest Boeing and Lockheed claim that a partnership would allow for greater
Innovation and would combine the knowledge and experience of both businesses into a single entity
Ula was created as a result the CEO of Ula has stated on several occasions that he is
not concerned about SpaceX reusable Rockets are not in his opinion the wave of the future every
industry's experienced disruption where a fresh creative firm drives away an established market
leader even the dominant search engine at the time Yahoo didn't take Google seriously even
the founder of Google sought to sell it to Yahoo but Yahoo turned them down Blockbuster predated
Netflix they were oblivious to the potential of streaming services in a society where everyone
had access to the internet the Blockbuster management team believed their company would
last forever many business veterans including Steve Ballmer the CEO of Microsoft laughed at
Apple with Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone the absence of a keyboard on the iPhone was a point
of contention for Blackberry in light of this it is a poor email system Nokia failed to adjust to a
shifting smartphone industry and Apple and Samsung gained a larger part of the market overall selling
Celluloid cameras and films were a huge business for Kodak but the Advent of digital cameras forced
them out of business these numerous examples serve to demonstrate how failing to innovate an adapt
will lead to a company's demise the rocket engine is created and designed by SpaceX SpaceX created
the Merlin engine for the Falcon series of rockets which runs on Rocket grade kerosene rp1 and liquid
oxygen or lox they discover that rp1 is not the ideal fuel for reusable Rockets during the ReUse
of the Falcon first stage as a result they began to create the Raptor engine in 2011 that runs on
methane CH4 and lox the super heavy and Starships built by SpaceX now use this engine on the other
hand Ula has never created any rocket engines during its existence the rd-180 engine from
Russia Powers the atlas V the rs-68a rl-10 engine from the aerojet Rocketdyne Powers the Delta
IV heavy and the be4 engine from Blue origin Powers the Vulcan the Next Generation rocket
Ula does not possess a competitive advantage over SpaceX in the development of Rocket engines the
most expensive component of a rocket is the engine how can Ula compete with spacex's in-house Raptor
and Merlin engine Ula hasn't tried to create a rocket engine since 2006 though and now it's too
late at the moment Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy are spacex's two operating rockets and low earth orbit
and Geo transfer orbit respectively Falcon 9 can launch 22 800 kilograms and 8 300 kilograms at a
launch price of about 60 million dollars with a large capacity of 26 700 kilograms for GTO and
63 800 kilograms for Leo the Falcon heavy is an affordable 90 million dollar launch vehicle two
other Rockets are in use by Ula Atlas 5 as well as Delta IV heavy which is also known as the atlas
V the atlas V costs 110 million dollars and has a launch capacity of 8 900 kilograms for geo and 20
1520 kilograms for Leo or low earth orbit with a cost of 400 million dollars on average the
Delta IV heavy can launch satellites weighing 28 790 kilograms for Leo and 14 220 kilograms
to Geo transfer orbit SpaceX easily defeats ula's launch vehicle in every way it's obvious
SpaceX is also currently developing and testing the Starship it has an aspirational
2 billion dollar launch cost and is capable of launching one hundred thousand kilograms or 220
000 pounds to low earth orbit it's evident that ula's rocket cannot even match spacex's
existing rocket as a result when Starship goes online ula's rocket will be far behind reusable
Rockets have always been a priority for SpaceX and the Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy were designed
to have a maximum number of reuses of 10 without extensive refurbishment it's disappointing to see
ula's rate of innovation by the time they launched their Vulcan rocket SpaceX will have launched a
fully reusable cargo Starship from Mars and the new Glen reusable Rockets also being developed
by Blue origin as a result in the competition for reusable Rockets Ula will fall short of both
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