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New Glenn has a potential path to compete with Starship eventually, with BO's work on making a reusable version of its second stage. It's years away at best, bu
by DylanSp 3y ago
New Glenn has a potential path to compete with Starship eventually, with BO's work on making a reusable version of its second stage. It's years away at best, but it's arguably more than anyone else is doing.
- wongarsu 3y agoOn paper New Glenn looks interesting. But Blue Origin is one year older than SpaceX but with slightly fewer success stories to talk about. So far they managed 30 suborbital launches (counting all test flights); in the same time SpaceX did 240 orbital launches. New Glenn has lots of potential, but it's also really hard to get excited about.
- DylanSp 3y agoEntirely fair. The main reason I bring up them as even having realistic potential is that they've built a few BE-4 engines that're ready to go on Vulcan, and I think they've been spotted building hardware for New Glenn's first stage. They've definitely got a lot of work to do, though.