#ULA: Why isn't the Vulcan reusable? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 20 April 2024
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#ULA: Why isn't the Vulcan reusable? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/blue-origin-completes-delivery-of-the-two-be-4-engines-for-ulas-second-vulcan-launch/
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBS I in the world behind the black Bob Zimmerman is here. I'm John |
| 0:09.7 | Bachelor Blue Origin in a while Bob Blue Origin we In a while, Bob. Blue Origin, we better redefine it. It's a |
| 0:15.8 | Bezo's company. What does it do, Bob? Good evening to you. |
| 0:18.6 | Good evening, General. Well, it doesn't do much of anything. That's been the problem. |
| 0:22.3 | It seems to have come to life in the last few |
| 0:26.7 | months with the removal of the previous CEO by Bezos who had really stopped all operations for five years nothing got done. |
| 0:38.0 | So it's starting to have action, but it's still questionable how acting the action is. |
| 0:45.0 | For example, the key, the most important issue right now |
| 0:48.4 | is it's BE4 rocket engine. |
| 0:51.1 | This is an engine that is used by ULA's Vulcan rocket to use two on the first stage of every launch. |
| 1:00.0 | It's also the engine that Blue Origin wants to use on its New Glen rocket. |
| 1:04.4 | They would use seven of these on the first stage of the New Glen. |
| 1:08.8 | New Glen has not launched yet, but Vulcan has launched once. Vulcan has a second launch planned. It was |
| 1:16.6 | originally supposed to go in April now. But about a month or so ago they |
| 1:21.6 | announced it wasn't going to launch until the fall and the reason they said it wouldn't launch until the fall was because its payload |
| 1:28.0 | Sierra Space's tenacity dream chase a mini shuttle was still going through its ground test, final ground |
| 1:34.8 | testing to get certified for launch and it wasn't ready. And that was the reason they |
| 1:39.4 | gave for the fall delay, but it seems now there was a really another reason which they kept quiet because it really would look bad |
| 1:47.0 | and that was that Blue Origin had not yet delivered the two |
| 1:52.0 | BE4 engines needed for that launch. |
| 1:55.0 | Apparently this week they completed the delivery of those two engines and now |
| 2:00.0 | ULA is now mounting them on the rocket, which means there was no way a launch in April could have occurred. |
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