▲ | nordsieck 11 hours ago | |
> On the commercial side Blue Origin has been slow in starting but they are almost ready and will have relatively cheap launches. [citation needed] Sure, New Glenn is designed to be a partially reusable rocket. But it's far from clear that they'll even successfully launch on their debut, not to mention recover the booster. And even when they've sorted all that out, word on the street is that the rocket was not designed to be inexpensively manufactured. It's not clear to me just now low reuse can help drive down their launch price. |