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Re:SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st Falcon 9 launch by metadat on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:15PM (#34187114)
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is a competitor in theory but in reality as far as I know they have not won a single contract from SpaceX. Not sure if they're even in the ring.
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Re:SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st Falcon 9 launch by dragonwriter on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:22PM (#34187195)
> Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is a competitor in theory

Not really, even in theory. It's only even remote current participation in the orbital market is the very overdue BE-4 engines it is developing for ULA (which I assume is “the consortium” that the upthread poster excluded in asking about competition.) Currently, its a suborbital launch company with aspirations of sometime becoming something more.

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Re:SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st Falcon 9 launch by nordsieck on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:34PM (#34187362)
> ULA (which I assume is “the consortium” that the upthread poster excluded in asking about competition.

Could also be referring to "the National Team".

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Re:SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st Falcon 9 launch by geocrasher on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:17PM (#34187137)
How can the be in the ring if they can't even make it to orbit.
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