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To: Vince Ferrer
Yes, plus Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket has flown five consecutive times. Still, this is an impressive achievement, and is the last step to dramatically lowering the cost of space flight.

I forget the exact number, but it takes something like 10 times the energy output of New Shepherd to throw something into Orbit. Everything Blue Origin has done so far is sub orbital. Pretty much everything SpaceX does is orbital.

8 posted on 03/30/2017 4:26:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Yes, Blue Origin and SpaceX have been working on the same goals from two directions.


19 posted on 03/30/2017 6:05:57 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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