New Glenn
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When we first moved to the space coast in 1977, our family would drive out to the beach to watch launches. The first few were at night. The very first one actually blew up, and it took us a while to figure out that something abnormal happened.
These were all satellite launches under the radar of the national news. At that time there were launches every 3-4 weeks, sometimes more often.
The local paper had a little ‘Next launch’ section in the top left corner of the first page, where you might have seen the local weather in another paper.
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New Glenn still on schedule for 1am tonight. Starship moved from this afternoon to tomorrow afternoon due to weather.
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New Glenn launched early this morning, see video below. Feed starts about half way through. Cool video of their rockets at 40 seconds into the flight.
It looked slow getting off the launch pad. So I compared it to the MUCH heavier, MUCH taller Starship 6 (admittedly it has more rocket engines, too).
At 0:15 into the flight, New Glenn 50mph, Starship 134mph.
At 0:30 into the flight, New Glenn 100mph, Starship 323mph.
At 1:00 into the flight, New Glenn 340mph, Starship 707mph.
Also at 1:00, New Glenn was 12,000 feet high, Starship was at 30,000 feet high.
So I guess you could say Starship is about 2.5x "faster", which is remarkable given how much taller and heavier it is.
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T - 44 minutes.
Link to video -
About 30 minutes late according to this
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Very cool stuff. Makes it all the more amazing what the Apollo's did and the moon landing.
