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Is for this launch services exclusive of the booster cost?
$135 million seems a bit cheap for Delta IV Heavy. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...lines-business Air Force to Pay Boeing, Lockheed More From Bloomberg News February 26, 2004 [EXCERPT] Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will be paid 50% more to send U.S. military satellites into space to compensate for the collapse of commercial demand that threatens their launch businesses, an Air Force official said Wednesday. Payments will increase to as much as $135 million per launch from $91 million, based on a preliminary estimate, because the service wants to ensure the companies stay in the military program, said Richard McKinney, the Air Force's deputy director of space acquisition. "We are going to pay more, but the companies are not going to get rich off of this," McKinney said. "They are going to be covering their costs." The Air Force plans to spend $4 billion on launch services through 2009 using systems developed by Boeing and Lockheed, McKinney said. The two companies are relying more on military contracts after the commercial market shrank by almost two-thirds because growth in communication satellite service never materialized after the bankruptcy of companies such as satellite telephone company GlobalStar. |
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om... Is for this launch services exclusive of the booster cost? $135 million seems a bit cheap for Delta IV Heavy. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...story?coll=la- headlines-business Batch cost? -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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Allen Thomson wrote: Is for this launch services exclusive of the booster cost? $135 million seems a bit cheap for Delta IV Heavy. No, that's the new price for Atlas V or Delta IV Medium, not Heavy. Remember that almost all US military payloads will fly on the Medium configurations. Out of several dozen contracted EELV launches, only two -- if I recall correctly -- are Heavies. -- MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. | |
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