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They have done many successful flights. They just don’t have the marketing skills of someone like a Spacex.
by nojito 5y ago
They have done many successful flights.
They just don’t have the marketing skills of someone like a Spacex.
- detritus 5y agoBO has completed 15 test flights over 6 years of a platform that bears little comparison with SpaceX's achievements. Each BO test I've watched has been very well presented and seemingly marketed - it's just that at this point, frankly, what they're doing is of less interest than that what SpaceX has accomplished.
- craftinator 5y agoI agree with this thought. They've done a whole lot less boundary pushing than SpaceX. The rationale for getting into the game seemed more like, "Well, this space thing seems like an emerging market, and we can't be a true monopoly unless we have a tentacle in it, too."
- shantara 5y agoSuborbital flights. Which require about 3% of energy needed to reach an orbit, and are of very limited practical use other than serving as an extended rollercoaster ride for tourists. Blue Origin are very far away from achieving anything comparable to even SpaceX first Falcon-1 flight from 2008.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoThe flights are of completely different magnitude. SpaceX sends humans to orbital velocity. BO goes straight up and down to the karman line
- piva00 5y agoAll of them sub-orbital, launching a parabola rocket is much easier than putting something out in space.