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Originally Posted by Poke  Well either way lets all hope that they use better engines on all of their next planed launches. I hope to see them use U.S. made engines instead of 3rd party stuff but again they need to have back up engines installed or something.. |
There is no such thing as back up engines. Weight is everything for those launches. The engines used have been some of the most reliable ones available. I don't see an American made engine being any better (or worse) then what was used.
Also again remember the decision to launch from Russia and use a Russian rocket was not made by Dish Network. They are just tennents leasing satellite space.