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Re:America has more new spaceships on the way by valuearb on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:47PM (#23382900)
Press releases aren’t progress.

Work on the New Glenn started in 2012. It was publicly announced in 2016. It’s still at least a year from flight.

Work on the BE-4 started in 2011. It’s first public planned release date was 2017, it’s at least 4 years late.

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Re:America has more new spaceships on the way by mr_toad on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:30PM (#23386238)
Raptor engine development started in 2009. It took ten years for one to actually fly.
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Re:America has more new spaceships on the way by valuearb on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:03AM (#23387634)
The Raptor was a tiny project at SpaceX, behind the Merlin, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy in investment in its first years, and commercial crew in later years.

BE-4 is the #1 project at BO, which is funding R&D at $1B a year.

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