Sea Launch was an even more innovative entrepreneurial commercial launcher. However the USA first stopped it docking in US ports to receive a payload because it was a foreign missile system and then stopped payloads being loaded in a foreign port because that would be exporting sensitive technology.
I'm guessing that Lockheed Martin and Boeing have less political clout in Texas today than they did in California 10 years ago
Sea Launch was an even more innovative entrepreneurial commercial launcher. However the USA first stopped it docking in US ports to receive a payload because it was a foreign missile system and then stopped payloads being loaded in a foreign port because that would be exporting sensitive technology.
I'm guessing that Lockheed Martin and Boeing have less political clout in Texas today than they did in California 10 years ago