The December 2025 critique compares warnings about possible conflict with equipment decisions that appear too slow to match them. Constellation's cancellation is the example used to test that relationship. The proposed standard is to announce a successor at the same meeting that ends the failed programme. That would identify how the requirement is to be met after cancellation. The criticism concerns the apparent gap between stated urgency and follow-through.
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The argument for pairing cancellation with a successor
Constellation's cancellation is used to argue that an urgent equipment requirement calls for an accompanying successor announcement.