Re:Blue Moon
by avmich on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:37PM
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But SpaceX still moves faster than Blue Origin, even though SpaceX promises to move much faster and then fails to do that.
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Re:Blue Moon
by NotPaidToPost on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:40AM
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How 'fast' they each move is beside the point.
However, a quick Googling suggests that Space X has ~3 times the number of employees Blue Origin has and may also have had more money ploughed into it.
The point here is that Elon Musk is infamous for his widely optimistic forecasts while Bezos is more down to Earth (so to speak).
They're going about it very different ways so I think from a typical bystander it is hard to see. We won't really know how accurate your statement is until we see New Glenn and if BFR ever becomes a reality. But historically BO has been right on the mark with their timelines while SpaceX (and a lot of other Musk stuff) is at least a year behind schedule.
By 2008, a publicized timetable for New Shepard indicated that Blue Origin intended to fly unmanned in 2011, and manned in 2012. How is that "right on the mark"?
Blue origin is 19 years old and hasn't achieved orbit.
Wrong. SpaceX is objectively faster. The New Glenn is about the size of the Falcon Heavy in terms of payload.
The BFR is a whole different class that is gone be more in line with the hidden BO project the New Armstrong, but we don't really know what that is gone be.
That said, SpaceX is ahead in rockets but this moon lander is something SpaceX doesn't have or is even working on.