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Photo source: Starship Gazer Wet dress rehearsal likely in the next few days. Hopefully launch soon after?
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoHmm? New Glenn and Vulcan compete with Falcon, not Starship, and the Raptors looked great on IFT-2.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoNew Glenn is pretty well in between Falcon 9 and Starship. Depending on launch costs, I could see a market for all three LVs.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoNew Glenn is slated as the first stage for the Blue Moon lander. As Starship/HLS is using Superheavy to do the same thing. So they’re sort-of-comparable, especially now that Blue Moon is the planned lander for Artemis V. the Raptors looked great on IFT-2. Fair point. They probably did.
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoI was thinking in terms of payloads to different orbits, but you’re right that the Blue Moon HLS architecture is now a lot closer to the Starship one.
Hmm? New Glenn and Vulcan compete with Falcon, not Starship, and the Raptors looked great on IFT-2.
New Glenn is pretty well in between Falcon 9 and Starship. Depending on launch costs, I could see a market for all three LVs.
New Glenn is slated as the first stage for the Blue Moon lander. As Starship/HLS is using Superheavy to do the same thing. So they’re sort-of-comparable, especially now that Blue Moon is the planned lander for Artemis V.
Fair point. They probably did.
I was thinking in terms of payloads to different orbits, but you’re right that the Blue Moon HLS architecture is now a lot closer to the Starship one.