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Same accomplishment as SpaceX but with a lot less hullabaloo. This is Jeff Bezos's style.
by lateforwork 11mo ago
Same accomplishment as SpaceX but with a lot less hullabaloo. This is Jeff Bezos's style.
- ACCount37 11mo agoIt is a decade late. By now, SpaceX's own landings are totally routine and happen once a week, and even Starship got first stage reusability. Still, good to see that someone other than SpaceX is serious about reusability and capable of pulling off a landing. The performance of "old space" has been nothing short of embarrassing. I'm no fan of Blue Origin, but the teams there pulled off one of the hardest feats in all of spaceflight.
- jryle70 11mo ago> By now, SpaceX's own landings are totally routine and happen once a week Three times a week. They may have two launches at the same times today, from West and East coast.
- svggrfgovgf 11mo agoThe two launches scheduled for today (Nov. 14th 2025) are both on the East coast and are scheduled to be within an hour (22:08 EST and 22:55 EST according to Spaceflight Now) from: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. If those launches go on schedule, that will mean 4 launches (New Glenn, Atlas 5, and two Falcon 9s) in 31 hours from the Cape Canaveral area in Florida.
- lateforwork 11mo ago> It is a decade late. Who did it first doesn't matter. What matters is who can do it the cheapest. Blue Origin has now destroyed SpaceX's cost advantage. That's good for humanity because you don't want a megalomaniac like Elon Musk to be the only one launching satellites and the only with a satellite internet service.
- testing22321 11mo agoBo have launched twice. I think you’re a touch premature saying they’ve destroyed the cost advantage. In 5 or 10 years if they’re launching three times a week, maybe.