Leroy Chiao

Now, it doesn't mean there aren't other options.

They could certainly probably integrate those payloads onto a Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX.

I mean, they are rivals, but, you know, in the Artemis team, all the contractors are going to help each other.

They could certainly look at getting a rocket from the United Launch Alliance or, you know, possibly other sources.

So they're not dead in the water, but it's a significant hit for sure.

Well, it certainly sets them back at least a year, probably more like a year and a half.

But yeah, so they don't have that many satellites in orbit.

And of course, they were counting on New Glenn to start building that constellation.

You know, they're already significantly behind Starlink.

Everybody is.

Starlink was the last entrant to the game and really leapfrogged everyone and dominated the low latency internet satellite system.

There's no way to know right now.

I'm sure they have, you know, high-speed video that they're going to be looking at.

They're going to be looking at all the telemetry.

They had a lot of data flowing from the rocket and the launch site to the control center.

And so they're going to be looking at all of that to find the clues of what went wrong.

And I suspect fairly quickly they'll determine the root cause.

But it's going to take a while to get, you know, the FAA happy and recertify the vehicle as ready to go fly again.

And, you know, a mishap, yeah.

We have a way of understating things in the aerospace world, you know, and my favorite is when, you know, you have a rocket falling apart and exploding during flight.