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He didn't give details about the most likely types of missions and why the new system would manage to attract a wider range of customers than NASA's phased-out Delta II rockets, which Stratolaunch hopes to replace.
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Some of these customers are to be found just up the road, part of the dense engineering conglomeration of this most industrious of towns, but others, such as Boeing Aerospace, for which Pietro Carnaghi has built a machine to shape the top of Delta-4 rockets, are in America.
ECONOMIST: The complications of clustering
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One alternative to Ares, proposed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is to use modified versions of their existing Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets both to go to the moon and to resupply the space station, but at lower cost.
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In particular, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics and Martin Marietta resumed production of three powerful launch vehicles the Delta, Atlas and Titan rockets, respectively recreating an array of options for launching vital national security satellites into space and establishing an active competition for both domestic and civilian payloads.
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Congress has adopted language strongly favoring space-shuttle derived rockets for this purpose, rather than a version of the Delta IV.
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