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2 hours ago, MinimumSky5 said:

Maybe, by then, we'll have an update on the development of New Glenn.

Will she also take two engines of every three?

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2 hours ago, mikegarrison said:

He now only holds 12% of Amazon

Yeah, she's a real amazon.

 

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6 hours ago, mikegarrison said:

I wonder just how big the demand really is for putting a 10 kg box into freefall for a few minutes.

Yeah, it's kind of bizarre, frankly. I suppose there must be something to test for such a short period of time. I would have thought most suborbital science was about sampling the atmosphere at various altitudes at the upper reaches of it.

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7 hours ago, mikegarrison said:

I wonder just how big the demand really is for putting a 10 kg box into freefall for a few minutes.

And why those few minutes have to be continuous and you can't just throw it in the hold of the vomit comet (perhaps in a cabinet or something).

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On 9/26/2019 at 4:35 PM, wumpus said:

And why those few minutes have to be continuous and you can't just throw it in the hold of the vomit comet (perhaps in a cabinet or something).

My first guess is that you want to test fluid systems and yes suborbital rockets are used to test systems. Guess the vomit comet is to short for it to stabilize this. 

Looks like they are doing decent business with it. Then they start doing manned flight they can even add payload specialists. 
And yes this is adds some obvious pork, I realy need to fly with the experiment to be able to correct if something don't go as planned. 

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53 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

I didn't know many middle class people with hundreds of thousands of dollars saved up for a half-hour tourist trip.

For now it only has to be cheaper than Virgin. We probably have to wait for competitors to pop up before the price actually starts to drop to middle-class vacation range.

Also at 6 seats per flight you're going to have tremendously long wait times until they get in the groove of things.

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