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It 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 se
by ACCount37 1y ago
It 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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.