Boeing's Space Business Could Be Unstoppable in 2025. It Just Needs 1 Thing to Happen First.

By some measures, 2023 was the worst year ever for United Launch Alliance.Formed from the merger of Boeing's (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) competing rocket businesses at the end of 2006, United Launch Alliance (ULA) quickly moved to dominate the business of space launch in the United States, launching a record 16 launches in 2009. But just one year later, SpaceX arrived on the scene with its transformative Falcon 9 rocket. By 2015, Falcon 9 was competing with ULA for lucrative U.S. national security missions, and when Falcon 9 version became reusable, lowering its cost per launch, SpaceX quickly stole ULA's role as America's premier rocket launcher. Worse, with ULA in the process of phasing out both its Atlas V and Delta IV rockets in favor of a replacement rocket called "Vulcan," ULA's launch cadence was destined to fall even further. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool