[AR] Re: irrational gushing enthusiasm (was Re: Future Exploration...)
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:57:20 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Paul Mueller wrote:
Interesting that they agreed to raise their prices and limit themselves
to a quota of launches. Another example of how things have fundamentally
changed. I don't believe SpaceX had to agree to those terms, and I bet
Krunichev wishes they hadn't agreed to them when Falcon 9 came along!
<sarcasm>Well, naturally SpaceX didn't have to agree to anything of the
sort, because *they* were a Western company, who only got a little bit of
aid from their government now and then.</sarcasm>
The price and quota business for Proton was a long time ago -- the quota
is long since gone -- and I'm sure that since then, Khrunichev has gotten
used to that extra cash flow, and might have a hard time slimming things
back down now.
Henry
P.S. I recall a fellow who worked for ILS in the early days saying that
they found it particularly annoying, when they'd had trouble getting into
some meeting because they were "foreign" (despite being a US company), to
find that Arianespace was already there...
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