Comments on: June 9, 2025 Quick space links https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/june-9-2025-quick-space-links/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/june-9-2025-quick-space-links/#comment-1595642 Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:34:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114730#comment-1595642 Yes. Everything Vulcan-related has been indeterminate but Real Soon Now for years. I do not anticipate that we have reached Peak-Lucy-and-Football for Vulcan yet. Two launches a month by year’s end sounds as funny as any dialogue line from Airplane – e.g. “Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.”

Not that Blue is exactly burning up the flame trenches either. Mission number two for New Glenn is now supposedly NET August 15. I’m not planning to bet the rent on that.

A meme comes to mind – Trump’s head Photoshopped in place of Lloyd Bridges’s over the line, “Looks like I picked the wrong day to cancel SpaceX contracts.”

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Analysis of status of ULA’s Vulcan rocket suggests launch cadence in 2nd half of 2025 will be robust, possibly 2x per month

I’d love to see it – I really would – but no one has ever ramped up launch cadence this fast with a brand new rocket.

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