Reading this and also why ULA was found, it sounds like a giant fail by the Government. They allowed the only two launch providers to join, because of unprofitability, which seams odd to me. SpaceX on the other hand opposed to this merge of Atlas and Delta. Now the only reason why SpaceX can charge NASA more than Atlas or Delta did before there merge, is that the prices soared because of the created monopoly. From this article it seams that SpaceX makes 80-90 million dollars profit per NASA or DoD launch. That’s a crazy margin, now i know how they can finance their Starship development and the massive Starlink launches.

Experts […] have updated 2024 YR4’s chance of impacting the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032 from 1.7% as of late February to 3.8% based on the Webb data and observations from ground-based telescopes.