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And poof, back to T-30 and counting

 

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I have the BO stream on, muted

I am uninterested in patter.

The stream on their site is apparently at a higher bitrate:

https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1

 

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3 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

That is something I did not know.  No wonder he was calling it BFR in the beginning!

 

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So much for not competing with their engine customer, ULA.

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This explains orbit choice well I think:

 

Except he asks for km, and is given nmi, so no...

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Interesting.

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36 minutes ago, GuessingEveryDay said:

That sucks, I was about to drive down there with my grandpa. Monday's no good since I have classes.

Oh, man, that sucks.

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3 minutes ago, Brotoro said:

Top 10 tallest rockets is missing the Apollo Saturn IB.

Yeah, bumps Ariane 6 off.

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10 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:

Right now the vehicle itself is in development. Although reuse is obviously still an aspect, the main focus is getting it to perform as well as possible and lift things to orbit.

This.

They have zero reason to reuse an entire vehicle until they have a candidate reusable vehicle. For this test they are reflying an engine on the booster. At a certain point it's worth considering that maybe—just maybe—the dolts working on Staship might actually have some clue what they are doing.

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Spoiler

 

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