"Gunter Krebs" wrote in message ...
USAF announced the decision to transfer 7 Delta-IV launches of the EELV Buy
1 to Atlas-V. Additionally 3 Vandenberg launches of EELV Buy 2 will be
granted to Atlas-V.

So it is now 14 Atlas-V vs. 12 Delta-IV for the Buy procurement.

And NASA asigned the New Horizons to an Atlas-5(551) launch.

Looks like a lucky day for the Atlas-V program. And a heavy blow for
Boeing's Delta-IV


A really bad day for Boeing, especially after it said it
was deemphasizing Delta IV commercial efforts to concentrate
on the U.S. Air Force/NASA/NOAA customers. Now the Delta IV
launch manifest looks so weak that the company will have to
consider shelving the entire program.

A really good day for Lockheed Martin and Energomash. A
strange day for U.S. taxpayers who must contemplate their
money going to a Russian company via. the Pentagon - to
launch satellites that will largely be used to monitor
Russia. The next logical step would be for the U.S. Air
Force to replace it's aging fighters with Migs.

- Ed Kyle