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It’s got more than twice the payload capacity of Falcon 9 to LEO and a 7m payload fairing vs 9m for Starship. The real question is if there’s going to be enoug
by Retric 2y ago
It’s got more than twice the payload capacity of Falcon 9 to LEO and a 7m payload fairing vs 9m for Starship.
The real question is if there’s going to be enough demand to justify these systems. With enough reusability it might make sense to fly these things 2/3 empty, but that’s only going to be so profitable.
- teractiveodular 2y agoNew Glenn's main customer will be Kuiper, Amazon's answer to Starlink.
- OhMeadhbh 2y agoBut also whatever Amazon's equivalent of NanoRacks is 'cause Amazon also wants to feed their GSaaS (Ground-Station as a Service) play. I think long-term Kuiper is going to be BO's main customer, but selling lift capacity to a NanoRacks-alike could reduce the impact of a Kuiper schedule slip.
- Retric 2y agoStarlink already scaled to 1M US households using Falcon 9 launches and this is twice as large. I think it’s reasonable to question just how many launches a competitor would support.