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A great example of that from this week is United Launch Alliance's Cert-2 mission.
Enter the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program.
Well, the Pentagon's already bought a whole bunch of Vulcan launches and expects two of those missions – USSF-106 and USSF-87 – to fly before the end of the year.
That was back when Blue Origin had a BE-4 engine explode during acceptance testing — an engine that was intended for the Cert-2 launch.
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