This weekly newsletter on rockets provides definitive coverage of the global launch industry. The big news this week is the New Glenn and Starship missions.
Blue Origin nailed ⅔ of their New Glenn debut: ascent and staging, and orbit insertion. We still don’t know what happened to the first stage during reentry.
Not bashing them at all, for the record. The headline is just very tilted to BO.
Right, especially when SpaceX caught another booster and was testing a new ship variant that still started up normally. And Blue’s ambitious launch ramp up requires booster reuse.
People really want a SpaceX competitor and are pretending it’s here. Meanwhile, 8 Falcons have launched this year (a 9th is scheduled for today), including 4 customer launches.
Blue Origin nailed ⅔ of their New Glenn debut: ascent and staging, and orbit insertion. We still don’t know what happened to the first stage during reentry.
Not bashing them at all, for the record. The headline is just very tilted to BO.
Right, especially when SpaceX caught another booster and was testing a new ship variant that still started up normally. And Blue’s ambitious launch ramp up requires booster reuse.
People really want a SpaceX competitor and are pretending it’s here. Meanwhile, 8 Falcons have launched this year (a 9th is scheduled for today), including 4 customer launches.