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Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by teractiveodular on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @01:03AM (#42564257)
New Glenn's main customer will be Kuiper, Amazon's answer to Starlink.
Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by OhMeadhbh on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @01:13AM (#42564282)
But also whatever Amazon's equivalent of NanoRacks is 'cause Amazon also wants to feed their GSaaS (Ground-Station as a Service) play. I think long-term Kuiper is going to be BO's main customer, but selling lift capacity to a NanoRacks-alike could reduce the impact of a Kuiper schedule slip.
Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by Retric on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:02AM (#42564441)
Starlink already scaled to 1M US households using Falcon 9 launches and this is twice as large. I think it’s reasonable to question just how many launches a competitor would support.