Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket

Re:Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket by ragebol on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:23AM (#26313438)

It seems Blue Origin has gone almost full SLS with their New Glenn. So different from SpaceX. The approaches could not be more different: 1. spend a lot of money on first-time-right, making no money in the process and having all risk at the end (while trying to lower it on paper). Big kudos to BO if sticks the first landing (my bet is that the first will not land OK)

2. Design for first-time-close enough, spend a lot of money on many relatively cheap-ish prototypes that get blown up but improve each time. While making money with a less (but still) ambitious design

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Re:Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket by bryanlarsen on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:58PM (#26320624)

But BO has some beautiful factories built for New Glenn, whereas SpaceX is building Starship in tents. Elon says that the factory is 10-100x as hard as the prototype, so New Glenn must be way ahead of Starship, right? /s

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Re:Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket by ragebol on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:21AM (#26328606)

Beautiful empty factories, it seems.

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