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As of right now, New Glenn is not a bottleneck for any short term endeavours that Blue Origin is planning. The only real bottleneck is the cislunar transporter
by imtringued 2y ago
As of right now, New Glenn is not a bottleneck for any short term endeavours that Blue Origin is planning.
The only real bottleneck is the cislunar transporter by Lockheed Martin. Once they have the Cislunar Transporter, their bottleneck will be the cost of the refueling flights, not the cost of upper stage expending flights that deliver payloads. That's when they are going to need to start replacing the GS2 refueler with something reusable.
Can Stoke Space deliver 135 tons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen to the Cislunar Transporter? Can Rocket Lab do that? Starship might, but it uses a different fuel, so who knows.