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Re:Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure by eduah on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:58PM (#17762633)
Which one are landing orbital class rockets again?

FYI, Blue Origin has been at it longer that spaceX has existed. But SpaceX, spending at least 5X less money is landing orbital class rockets and whilst Blue Origin is doing suborbital flights.

Re:Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure by nopriorarrests on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:54PM (#17762879)
>SpaceX, spending at least 5X less money

not to argue, but both Blue Origin and SpaceX are private and don't disclose ther financial information, to my best knowledge. So where is this number coming from?

Re:Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure by derekp7 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:43PM (#17763242)
For Blue Origin, they don't have any customers yet, so no income there. And it is public that Bezos just sold what, about a gigadollars worth of Amazon stock, presumably to dump into Blue Origin (which I think he's done about once a year?).
Re:Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure by sdinsn on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:23PM (#17768915)
> For Blue Origin, they don't have any customers yet, so no income there.

You couldn't be more wrong. They've had payload customers for their test flights. They also have 4 large customers signed up for their New Glenn rocket (in development).

Re:Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure by greglindahl on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:32PM (#17763212)
There was a study comparing NASA's development costs to SpaceX's, which SpaceX has commented on.

BO has never reached orbit, and doesn't say much about how much they've spent, so no one knows what their costs will be.

Re:Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure by sdinsn on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:25PM (#17768930)
> Which one are landing orbital class rockets again?

Blue Origin is also developing VTVL rockets.

BO is expecting to have passenger flights by the end of 2018.