New Glenn
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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.
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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.
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Very cool stuff. Makes it all the more amazing what the Apollo's did and the moon landing.
@taiwan_girl said in New Glenn:
Makes it all the more amazing what the Apollo's did and the moon landing.
Indeed. It was more than half a century ago.
But...the motivations were different. We were in a "space race." The goal of putting a human on the moon was the primary goal. It had to be done right - the first time. If you look at clips from "The Right Stuff," there's a whole sequence of US rockets in the early 60s blowing up. It would have been a national embarrassment if the Apollo missions had failed (look at Apollo 1!).
SpaceX's philosophy is different: "Let's blow 'em up and learn from the errors. It's less expensive to fail and learn than to spend millions perfecting things."
Consider the successes of Boeing in human space flight vs that of SpaceX.
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