BoeLock
In a surprise announcement, Boeing and Lockheed will be creating a new joint venture called United Launch Alliance. The new entity will be the sole provider of rockets for the US Air Force and other US government agencies.
This is great news for small space-launch startups; the resulting entity will be even more bureaucratized and unwieldy than the present two companies, thus driving up launch costs and therefore sending more and more business to smaller, more nimble companies like SpaceX, Armadillo Aerospace, and Scaled Composites.
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