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Press releases aren’t progress. Work on the New Glenn started in 2012. It was publicly announced in 2016. It’s still at least a year from flight. Work on the
by valuearb 6y ago
Press releases aren’t progress.
Work on the New Glenn started in 2012. It was publicly announced in 2016. It’s still at least a year from flight.
Work on the BE-4 started in 2011. It’s first public planned release date was 2017, it’s at least 4 years late.
- mr_toad 6y agoRaptor engine development started in 2009. It took ten years for one to actually fly.
- valuearb 6y agoThe Raptor was a tiny project at SpaceX, behind the Merlin, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy in investment in its first years, and commercial crew in later years. BE-4 is the #1 project at BO, which is funding R&D at $1B a year.