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[i]We have all the engines... to allow us to fly out the roughly two dozen Atlas missions on the ULA manifest. When tensions were heating up with Russia about a year ago, we deliberately accelerated those deliveries so we would have them in the event things got difficult later. We maintain a type of retainer contract for technical services should we experience something we don't expect on the launchpad or in the factory so we would be able to call up the Russian engineers and talk with them about it. And, I still have some extra spare parts I'd like to have. I don't have all of those delivered yet. But, both [tech service and spare parts] are just risk mitigations and we know how to get by without either of those and we've positioned ourselves to do that.[/i]
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